as in masterpiece
something (as a work of art) that is a great achievement and often its creator's greatest achievement
his most famous novel is regarded as a masterwork of Western literature
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The tambourine-wielding doll wears a witchy, all-black look lifted from the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 masterwork.
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Indeed, Wes Craven's masterwork is a dizzying, witty display of what makes horror movies tick while being plenty scary in its own right.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
If deBessonet and her marvelous cast – including a towering Joshua Henry – come tantalizingly close to making all the necessary fixes, Ragtime remains a flawed masterwork of its era.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Discovering the genre through Americanized versions of Japanese masterworks, millennials explored world cinema largely through comparison.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
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Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Indeed, Wes Craven's masterwork is a dizzying, witty display of what makes horror movies tick while being plenty scary in its own right.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
If deBessonet and her marvelous cast – including a towering Joshua Henry – come tantalizingly close to making all the necessary fixes, Ragtime remains a flawed masterwork of its era.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Discovering the genre through Americanized versions of Japanese masterworks, millennials explored world cinema largely through comparison.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
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masterpiece
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No is poet Idea Vilariño’s final masterpiece, where poetry becomes both refusal and resilience.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Smith’s diving interception, which would have essentially put away an eventual 27-19 victory over the Minnesota Vikings and added an exclamation point to a defensive masterpiece by Baltimore, didn’t count.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Masterwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterwork. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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