mastering

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Many joined after high school and spent years mastering tasks like pattern making—taking a sketch from a designer and turning it into the pattern that is used to then make the garments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

For now Palou, who turned 29 earlier this month, appears content with mastering those skills in IndyCar rather that following the natural progression into an F1 ride.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Prompting AI — the ability to translate a vague problem into a specific, structured input that yields a decision-guiding output — is the modern version of mastering Excel.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

Some of the workers, who have spent years mastering their craft and usually spend weeks designing a piece of jewellery, are "very uncomfortable with it" and fear their jobs could eventually disappear, Soni admitted.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

What is it about those plants that kept their domestication beyond the reach of ancient farmers capable of mastering such difficult techniques as grafting?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond