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Recent Examples of mastery March 2025 King of Cups: This month invites you into the realms of emotional mastery and deep inner work. Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025 According to Michelin, inspectors rate eateries following five criteria: quality of products, mastery of flavor and cooking techniques, personality of the chef represented in the dining experience, harmony of flavors and consistency between visits. Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 25 June 2025 From genius hacks to keep your bananas ripe and fresh for longer to innovative uses in the kitchen, let this be your guide to banana mastery. Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 13 June 2025 Three teens display Office tools mastery Zarrah Griffin of Vilonia High School, Myles Healey of Bald Knob High School and Jack Springer of Cabot High School showed off their Microsoft Office skills this week at the 2025 Microsoft Office Specialist U.S. National Championship in Grapevine, Texas. arkansasonline.com, 22 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for mastery
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Noun
  • Schools will be required to provide early intervention for K-8 students at-risk of not meeting grade level proficiency.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • Maybe letting users make lists is less about an accrual of cultural proficiency and more about extending empathy to the poor celebs who put their own taste on the line.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • There's more than enough power in the iPhone Pro and Pro Max models to allow macOS to run smoothly on the hardware.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Big Brother went from America voting out the houseguests to the housemates voting out their own with weekly competitions to have ultimate power as Head of Household.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • These were inhabitants of the Real East Coast who, even in the late 2000s, were still under the impression that hip-hop’s having been created in their territory granted them indefinite dominion over how the genre’s rhythm and presentation were supposed to feel.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
  • The idea of achieving ‘dominion’ over the world and society is not uncommon in charismatic Christian theology, according to religious scholar Matthew Taylor, who studies Christian Nationalism.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Because many of the scenes are shot through windows or doorways, the camera can seem sympathetic to Agnes’s struggle to regain control.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 29 June 2025
  • In traditional robots, a control system analyzes sensory data and tells the machine what to do.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • The two cases are not identical, as there is no dispute that Drogheda and Silkeborg are controlled by the same owner, whereas Textor has never had that much sway at Palace, but Trivela’s travails demonstrate that UEFA is getting increasingly strict with MCO groups.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Emmanuel Macron for instance has lost enormous sway in Israel, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025

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“Mastery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastery. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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