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Recent Examples of masterstroke
Casting ‘Bridgerton’ breakout star Florence Hunt as the granddaughter was a masterstroke of the filmmakers and will add an intergenerational appeal.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 May 2025
The launch of Somerset House Studios was a masterstroke—a permanent experimental studio, the first of its kind in any UK arts center.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Those moves were masterstrokes that elevated the Celtics.
—Josh Robbins, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
But not everyone sees the port expansion as a strategic masterstroke.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 May 2025
The launch of Somerset House Studios was a masterstroke—a permanent experimental studio, the first of its kind in any UK arts center.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Those moves were masterstrokes that elevated the Celtics.
—Josh Robbins, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
But not everyone sees the port expansion as a strategic masterstroke.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for masterstroke
Recent Examples of Synonyms for masterstroke
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With the victory, Sabalenka has now won all of her past five grand slam semifinals and will look to win a fourth major title in Saturday’s showpiece.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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The Italian coach has guided the Nerazzurri back to the Champions League final for the second time in three years, and now face an in-form Paris Saint-Germain side in Uefa’s showpiece even in Munich.—
Emmet Gates,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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First, was the Demna retrospective of his visionary fashion masterpieces during his reign at Balenciaga.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
30 June 2025
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Restoration, re-releases: Wong Kar Wai’s romantic masterpiece In The Mood For Love from Janus Films opens at the IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center this weekend, at L.A.’s Laemmle Royal and Glendale next.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
27 June 2025
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The film’s dramatic framework, for all its solidity, incarnates, in its ellipses and asymmetries, the shifting contemporary identities of revered civic masterworks.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 June 2025
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The game, written by Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, is a masterwork in modern survival horror.—
Richard Newby,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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At first glance, the paper read like a scientific tour de force—an elegant fusion of medicine, mathematics, biochemistry, computational biology, and machine learning.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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The 42-year-old tour de force has been managing director of the F1 Academy, the all-female race series from Formula 1, since 2023.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
14 June 2025
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“Masterstroke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterstroke. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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