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mastery

[mas-tuh-ree, mah-stuh-] / ˈmæs tə ri, ˈmɑ stə- /


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But it also elicited backlash from a camp who did not think the pair were displaying proper mastery of, or reverence for, flamenco history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

That is, developing mastery through hands-on engagement, social modeling, and “vicarious experience,” according to Baker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

I’m sure it’s difficult to maintain a constant mastery on both fronts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

He also wants his team to be intense pressers but have "real mastery in possession".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

The baroness seemed unimpressed by their mastery of poetic meter.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Stars lit new pages for him; seas Revealed the depths their waves were screening; The ebbs gave up their masteries, The tidal flows confessed their meaning.

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett

And if a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.—II.

From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

Money saith reason; for so doth it fare, Money makes masteries, old proverbs declare.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

And where were any masteries done, thereat would he be, and there might none cast bar nor stone to him by two yards.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler

Away with your nonsense of oil and easels, of marble and chisels; except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, they are hypocritical rubbish.

From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson


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