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- noun Plural form of
masterstroke .
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Examples
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Roy Hodgson's dismissal and Kenny Dalglish's romantic re-installation may prove masterstrokes but, to many outside Merseyside, it appears a strangely sentimental exchange.
Clubs should serve the fans, not pander to fantasies of democracy | Louise Taylor 2011
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He did this through a series of tactical masterstrokes that involved buying a new suit and, er, that's it.
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The characterisation remains strong, and in A Storm of Swords Martin delivers one of his masterstrokes by upgrading the hitherto villainous and reprehensible Jaime Lannister to full POV status.
Wertzone Classics: A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin Adam Whitehead 2010
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One of the masterstrokes of the ACLU is its quest to mold American law as it desires through judicial activism.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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In politics, what distinguishes genius from folly, masterstrokes from blunders?
Obama didn't change. We did. Jon Meacham 2010
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One of the masterstrokes of the ACLU is its quest to mold American law as it desires through judicial activism.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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I happen to think that both the flip flop notion, and the tomato raid are the genius masterstrokes of forward thinking policing:
Be afraid, be very afraid……. actually, don’t be. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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The characterisation remains strong, and in A Storm of Swords Martin delivers one of his masterstrokes by upgrading the hitherto villainous and reprehensible Jaime Lannister to full POV status.
Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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One is persuaded that amply funded experts could negate -- in masterstrokes devoid of unintended consequences -- financial sleight-of-hand, environmental degradation, unconscionable hunger and poverty, diplomatic fearfulness and mistrust, potentially irrevocable climatic instability, and ongoing nuclear proliferation.
Sanjay Khanna: Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit 2009
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While every case is its own animal, it's not hard to predict the public relations follies and masterstrokes that might be on the horizon.
Eric Dezenhall: The Criminalization of Risk and the Coming Flack Attack 2009
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