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Recent Examples of masterstroke
Those moves were masterstrokes that elevated the Celtics.
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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
Performing a de facto remake of show's mythology before gradually bringing Daleks, Time Lords, Cybermen, the Master and the other Doctor Who villains back into the mix was a masterstroke.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Lee Shubert’s urban masterstroke proved as permanent as any real-estate coup can be in New York.
—Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
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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
Performing a de facto remake of show's mythology before gradually bringing Daleks, Time Lords, Cybermen, the Master and the other Doctor Who villains back into the mix was a masterstroke.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Lee Shubert’s urban masterstroke proved as permanent as any real-estate coup can be in New York.
—Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for masterstroke
Recent Examples of Synonyms for masterstroke
Noun
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Such investors won’t be interested in DEI and ESG as showpieces to feel better about themselves.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Most of the vehicles displayed in the booths at Overland Expo West are showpieces.—
Jakob Schiller,
Outside Online,
29 May 2025
Noun
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It is also widely considered by the global whisky industry to be a masterpiece in terms of the quality and consistency that has been maintained over decades at a mass scale of production.—
Felipe Schrieberg,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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For Williams, all of life seems to be captured in the oversized mandibles of Spielberg’s enduring cinematic masterpiece.—
Marco della Cava,
USA Today,
19 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 2 Jul. 2025.
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