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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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That mindset has made him a horror maestro for over three decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

But there’s one skill that seems to leave this 5-foot-7 maestro looking up at everyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

I will miss watching the greatest maestro and savant in the history of basketball, LeBron James.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

The new CEO came into the role as an operational maestro who would bring a critical eye to that vast portfolio of businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

He had become a maestro himself—was regarded as he had once regarded Uncle Dap.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Just as much, those maestri would defer to Mr. Drucker’s interpretations of clarinet solos.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

As an example let us take the case of the radio maestri.

From Time Magazine Archive

For five years now I've given up what I'd like to do, and I've tried, under the best maestri I could find, to make something out of my voice, so to speak.

From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The art of Priscilla seems to me to satisfy this test much better than that of many of our modern maestri.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various

I have written three operas, and am a member of the Bologna Academy; I underwent a trial where several maestri toiled and labored for four or five hours, whereas I finished my work in one.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Ludwig Nohl

Only Swedish pop maestros Abba have breached the seven million mark since, making it an elite club.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Donning video headsets and armed with nothing more than a joystick and the Olympics’ fastest fingers, these maestros have the exact same objective as the athlete they’re filming: to be the best in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

He delighted audiences at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall and collaborated with jazz legends, Western classical orchestras, and Carnatic music maestros.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024

What might a young music director mean to an orchestra and to a city when an amazing crop of international and, for the first time, diverse young maestros and maestras is upon us?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

In the case of the classical musicians’ auditions, the maestros were incapable of making a fair judgment about how well someone was playing if they could see them.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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