masterstroke

Example Sentences

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Then at the start of this year, she announced her masterstroke: let the voter decide.

From BBC

So, in a masterstroke of tactical roster management, Waldrum decided to keep Oshoala out of the starting 11 against Australia and recall Ajibade to give the team some direction in the first half.

From Seattle Times

In club football, the goals initially came as more of a trickle than a flood, until a tactical masterstroke.

From BBC

At the time, Jeffrey K. Hadden, a University of Virginia sociologist and a Robertson biographer, said Robertson’s masterstroke was insisting that three million followers across the U.S. sign petitions before he would decide to run.

From Seattle Times

He’s also setting the stage for his most calculated masterstroke, an extraordinarily orchestrated 15-minute town-hall sequence in which the migrants become an all-too-useful scapegoat, a common enemy against which to unite.

From Los Angeles Times