as in authoritative
being the most accurate and apparently thorough
a magisterial biography of Thomas Jefferson that has never been superseded
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Copy Facebook Pinterest Photo by An Rong Xu From my airplane window, the Pearl River unfurled from fogged mountains in a glossy, pale-blue ribbon, a magisterial curve of water that defined the landscape with its flow.
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Bonnie Tsui, AFAR Media, 6 May 2025
And currently, there is Charles Gaines’ magisterial new works, Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs, at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood (on view through May 31, 2025).
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Image Memento Mori by Muriel Spark Few writers were as capable of scalpel-sharp dissection of the rich as the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark, whose magisterial social satires remain relevant even half a century later.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Mawdsley presents a scrupulous and magisterial account of naval warfare from 1939 to 1945.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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Bonnie Tsui, AFAR Media, 6 May 2025
And currently, there is Charles Gaines’ magisterial new works, Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs, at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood (on view through May 31, 2025).
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Image Memento Mori by Muriel Spark Few writers were as capable of scalpel-sharp dissection of the rich as the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark, whose magisterial social satires remain relevant even half a century later.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Mawdsley presents a scrupulous and magisterial account of naval warfare from 1939 to 1945.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for magisterial
authoritative
Adjective
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These risks multiply when multiple agents collaborate, each trusting outputs from others as authoritative inputs.—
Steve Durbin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In June, more than 20 authoritative organizations, including the National Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics, expressed serious concerns for the health impacts of overhauling the advisory committee.—
Jordan Miller,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Magisterial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magisterial. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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