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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jenkins was masterful at maintaining his complicated life.
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Rembrandt is famous for his masterful contrast of light and darkness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was also a masterful legislative tactician.
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He writes with masterful facility, and succeeds in making his subject accessible to an audience of non-specialists without patronising their intelligence.
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I think he's just got a marginal talent he's masterful at exploiting.
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In fact, taken in her own schlocky context, she is masterful .
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Of course, some of the most powerful political regimes are masterful at using both illusion and coercion.
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Sir Humphrey's closing speech was masterful .
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The Reagan White House was masterful at this kind of effort.
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With the Clintons, such masterful performances can seem surreal, since they inevitably unfold against a backdrop of turmoil and controversy.