as in showpiece
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Recent Examples of masterstroke
Swapping out Justin Simmons for Brandon Jones was a masterstroke.
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2025
The Lana makes an architectural statement in Business Bay with its striking puzzle-like build — a design masterstroke from firm Foster + Partners that creates a play of light and shadow throughout the day.
—Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
For all City’s inadequacies, Ange Postecoglou’s positional ploy was a masterstroke, with Kulusevski surprisingly moved out wide and Maddison brought in to exploit the gaps that were forged by the runs of team-mates.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
In signing him, Barca has beaten Lille to the 17-year-old's signature which could prove a masterstroke considering the premiums the French club sells players on for.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2025
The Lana makes an architectural statement in Business Bay with its striking puzzle-like build — a design masterstroke from firm Foster + Partners that creates a play of light and shadow throughout the day.
—Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
For all City’s inadequacies, Ange Postecoglou’s positional ploy was a masterstroke, with Kulusevski surprisingly moved out wide and Maddison brought in to exploit the gaps that were forged by the runs of team-mates.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
In signing him, Barca has beaten Lille to the 17-year-old's signature which could prove a masterstroke considering the premiums the French club sells players on for.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for masterstroke
Noun
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As the name suggests, the showpiece of this version of the Freak goes beyond the flying carrousel movement.—
Cait Bazemore,
Robb Report,
28 Feb. 2025
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Many of the action showpieces revolve not around Fok, but rather MC Cheung’s young and agile cop Lee, who came up under the inspector’s mentorship and continues to take down bad guys the old-fashioned way.—
James Marsh,
Deadline,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The strapless Christian Siriano dress—which looks like a shattered mirror pieced together to create a sartorial masterpiece—competes with some of Berry's best Oscar getups, as does her beauty look.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
3 Mar. 2025
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Here, however, his anti-authoritarian antics perfectly light up one of cinema's great masterpieces.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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An ongoing controversy over the holdings of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the organization that oversees masterworks shown by Munich museums such as the Alte Pinakothek and the Museum Brandhorst, reached new heights this week after a bombshell report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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In retrospect, the film seems arguably one of his least Lynchian works, and yet his empathetic sensibility and his instinct for passionately tactile images combined to create a masterwork of historical reconstruction.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Constantine isn’t a total tour de force, but that’s also a big part of the joy of the movie and what leaves me unmoved by all the talk of a sequel.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Three years after her tour de force in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis once again completely disappears into a character.—
Eric Andersson,
People.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Masterstroke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterstroke. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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