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And bringing in Lucchino was a masterstroke of front-office building, given Lucchino’s role in renovating Fenway Park and improving the fan experience.—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Maybe this was a premeditated masterstroke.—Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 The host’s pure masterstroke of Survivor weirdness, however, came not on the island but in the studio.—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026 In hindsight, making the character so toothless in the debut episode was a masterstroke.—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for masterstroke