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- noun Plural form of
mastermind . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mastermind .
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Examples
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Whether or not they are criminal masterminds is another question.
Where Are the Shadowy Criminal Masterminds? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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While a handful of people thought to be responsible for the murder have been charged in his death, the "masterminds" - as the cables refer to them - of the assassination are not in prison.
David Danzig: Wikileaks Cables: Evidence in Hand Points to "Masterminds" Behind Assassination of Prominent Indonesian Rights Activist David Danzig 2010
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While a handful of people thought to be responsible for the murder have been charged in his death, the "masterminds" - as the cables refer to them - of the assassination are not in prison.
David Danzig: Wikileaks Cables: Evidence in Hand Points to "Masterminds" Behind Assassination of Prominent Indonesian Rights Activist David Danzig 2010
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Even in this instance, however, five college-educated 'masterminds' - including two university lecturers - helped to shape the Bali plot.
The Madrassa Myth JDsg 2005
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Even in this instance, however, five college-educated 'masterminds' - including two university lecturers - helped to shape the Bali plot.
Archive 2005-06-01 JDsg 2005
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They were Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the so-called masterminds of the 9/11 attacks; Ramzi Binalshibh, another key 9/11 planner and believed to be a member of the Hamburg, Germany, al Qaeda cell; and Abu Faraj al-Libbi, known as another top al Qaeda planner.
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What is so chilling here is, when you see these two hijackers -- and keep in mind here, Rick, that these are dubbed the masterminds, the key players in the 9/11 plot.
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One of the masterminds was an Arab national who had traveled to neighboring Pakistan, he said.
News - latimes.com 2011
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One of the masterminds was an Arab national who had traveled to neighboring Pakistan, he said.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Yet while 80 gunmen - who were paid by powerful ranchers to kill activists, landless farmers and others defending the rights of the poor - are behind bars, none of the so-called masterminds of the crimes aside from Moura is in jail, Catholic Land Pastoral said.
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