mastermind

Example Sentences

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He helped mastermind Sir Keir's rise to the top of the party, and then to Downing Street.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

The mastermind behind ASML’s unlikeliest hit product is a data analyst named Rick Lenssen—or, as he’s now known to some colleagues, Brick Lenssen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

“Hannah was the mastermind who figured out four nesting possibilities.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Cook was the mastermind of the strategy that made China the primary manufacturing base for Apple devices, with the vast majority of iPhones assembled by contractor Foxconn and other suppliers in Chinese factories.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

She’d been a comfort to me for years, and I couldn’t see her as some sort of evil mastermind like everybody else seemed to.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry