mastery
Origin of mastery
1Other words from mastery
- non·mas·ter·y, noun, plural non·mas·ter·ies.
- pre·mas·ter·y, noun
- re·mas·ter·y, noun, plural re·mas·ter·ies.
Words Nearby mastery
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How to use mastery in a sentence
You have to know how to cook to some degree before you can disregard recipes altogether, and there is little motivation to push through the cacophony of internet cooking advice until you have achieved that mastery.
Some were vegan, most made use of local ingredients and all of them demonstrated a mastery of the unique and time-consuming skill of making molded or enrobed chocolates.
This Valentine’s Day, reach for a better box of chocolates | Daniela Galarza | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostULesson didn’t share any data on effectiveness and outcomes, but says it’s in the process of conducting a study with the University of Georgia to track mastery.
African edtech startup uLesson lands a $7.5 million Series A | Natasha Mascarenhas | January 20, 2021 | TechCrunchNiekro’s pitch, and his mastery of it, helped propel his singular career.
While the trio’s work suggests that less seasoned workers often feel as though they have little to offer, asking for help is giving someone else an opportunity to be of service and to tap into their own sense of expertise, even mastery.
Mark Twain famously said courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
Rudy Giuliani on His 9/11 Bluff, the Museum Controversy and the Rise of ISIS | Josh Robin | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn most battles, the rounds focus on battlers tearing each other down or hyping their own mastery of battle skills.
Here, the founder of the law and literature movement shows his mastery in bringing literature to philosophical bloom.
“It was no brute whom Smiley was pursuing with such mastery, no unqualified fanatic after all, no automaton,” le Carré writes.
Iran’s Top Spy Is the Modern-Day Karla, John Le Carré’s Villainous Mastermind | Michael Weiss | July 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI think that you need a very deep technical and cultural mastery before proposing to change the rules of a given system.
Was it his moment of iron self-mastery that brought her with outstretched, clinging arms towards him?
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodHe seemed to pass under the mastery of a great mood that was a composite reproduction of all the moods of his forgotten boyhood.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodThe idea, therefore, of expansive steam was not new, but the useful mastery of it was.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickHe did not easily acquire the mastery of this orchestra, but his preference for it was already established.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyBut surely the mastery which is obtained through fear is an unsatisfactory sort of thing.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph Hocking
British Dictionary definitions for mastery
/ (ˈmɑːstərɪ) /
full command or understanding of a subject
outstanding skill; expertise
the power of command; control
victory or superiority
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