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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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The emergence of centre-back William Saliba and creative maestro Michael Olise are among the refresh for Didier Deschamps' side since then.

From BBC Jul. 8, 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 director, Antoine Fuqua, a maestro of action thrillers such as “The Equalizer” trilogy, is surprisingly deft with the musical sequences.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

Gravely wounded in World War I, he had survived and returned an even greater maestro.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

It was established in one of the halls of the Lateran, and even the Carlovingian kings obtained from it skilful maestri and organists.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

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

And this piece of ecclesiastical furniture therefore presented a great field for the taste and ingenuity of the old maestri in wood-carving to exhibit their skill both in design and in execution.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various

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

It was in those friendships, with a language understood only by them and their maestros, that had me fall in love with acting as a dream profession.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2025

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

Speaking of midfield maestros, the mercurial Zinedine Zidane has been out of management since leaving Barcelona's Clasico rivals Real Madrid in 2021.

From BBC Sep. 11, 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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