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adj. - Able to deal authoritatively with affairs; Having or revealing supreme skill.

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  • Though she did not graduate with a specific distinction, she was known as a masterful storyteller.
  • So for all the billions it siphoned from the struggling Soviet economy, the program can only be described as a masterful failure.
  • I've never been able to get what was so "masterful" about his Spider Man work.
  • Also: some talking-head commented that the Clinton campaign was "masterful" at managing the press.
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