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Smooth Talk is a coming-of-age masterstroke that resists the genre’s tidy messaging, with Dern as its thorny gravitational pull.—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024 Appointing Campbell as head coach in 2023 was a masterstroke.—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 28 Mar. 2025 Transporting his story, originally set in New Jersey, to Argentina’s San Carlos de Bariloche, renowned for its pristine glacial lakes and awe-inspiring Patagonian mountains, was a masterstroke, in his opinion.—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025 The dissolution of communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union have sometimes been interpreted as a masterstroke of U.S. planning.—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for masterstroke
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