as in masterpieces
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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Recent Examples of masterworks
Discovering the genre through Americanized versions of Japanese masterworks, millennials explored world cinema largely through comparison.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
Set in Columbus, Indiana, a city known for its unusual concentration of distinguished modern architecture, it’s centered on Casey, a teen-age girl with a difficult family background whose aesthetic passion has been awakened by the city’s masterworks.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Across the Seine, the Musée d’Orsay and its famed Impressionist masterworks is gearing up for a rolling renovation through 2027 that will reconfigure its entrance, create a new gallery for contemporary photography, and set up a terrace on the fifth floor, without ever fully closing its doors.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2025
For its 2025-26 season, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir is bringing back traditional favorites, performing classical masterworks and adding contemporary pieces that draw from history and literature.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 8 Sep. 2025
Its site, featuring a building designed by Pritzker Prize winning design practice Herzog & de Meuron and a landscape of native and flowering plants, will present a rotating selection of masterworks curated by the Calder Foundation.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, which oversees the renowned Pearlman Collection, an assembly of modern and Impressionist masterworks, will gift the entire assembly to three museums.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2025
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
Set in Columbus, Indiana, a city known for its unusual concentration of distinguished modern architecture, it’s centered on Casey, a teen-age girl with a difficult family background whose aesthetic passion has been awakened by the city’s masterworks.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Across the Seine, the Musée d’Orsay and its famed Impressionist masterworks is gearing up for a rolling renovation through 2027 that will reconfigure its entrance, create a new gallery for contemporary photography, and set up a terrace on the fifth floor, without ever fully closing its doors.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2025
For its 2025-26 season, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir is bringing back traditional favorites, performing classical masterworks and adding contemporary pieces that draw from history and literature.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 8 Sep. 2025
Its site, featuring a building designed by Pritzker Prize winning design practice Herzog & de Meuron and a landscape of native and flowering plants, will present a rotating selection of masterworks curated by the Calder Foundation.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, which oversees the renowned Pearlman Collection, an assembly of modern and Impressionist masterworks, will gift the entire assembly to three museums.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for masterworks
masterpieces
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On the eve of the war, Jaujard, with the help of staff and volunteers, secretly arranged for the Mona Lisa and thousands of other masterpieces to be evacuated to the French countryside to protect them from looting.—
NPR,
NPR,
20 Oct. 2025
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The theft of 13 masterpieces from the Gardner Museum in 1990 remains unsolved.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Masterworks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterworks. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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