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mastermind

verb as in plan and direct

Strongest match

Strong match

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Their only previous away victory against a top nation in the professional era was the famous shock win over South Africa in Brighton at the 2015 World Cup, again masterminded by Jones.

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Zelensky ordered two ministers to resign over the corruption scheme and sanctioned a former business partner who was named as its mastermind.

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The biggest shock came with the accusation that an alleged close friend and a former business associate of Zelensky, Timur Mindich, had masterminded the scheme.

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She said in an interview that she feels remorse and accepts that what she did was wrong, though she maintains she was not the mastermind of the scheme.

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Among them was "a businessman -- the head of the criminal organisation", the bureau added, without naming him -- an apparent reference to Mindich, who was earlier identified by the prosecutors as the mastermind of the scheme.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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