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mastermind Noun

— If you are the mastermind behind something like a product or concept, you are the genius who creates, manages, or controls it. Ray Kroc was the mastermind behind the fast food concept. Who was the mastermind behind this great sitcom? It would take a few masterminds to solve this problem.

mastermind Verb

— If you mastermind something you create, manage, or control it. Ray Kroc masterminded the fast foods concept. The president of our company masterminds one great idea after another. Masterminding new ideas is not one of my strengths.

mastermind

— verb (= direct) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) he masterminded the robbery — noun (= genius, Einstein) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality Mozart was a child genius he's smart but he's no Einstein — noun (= originator) someone who creates new things

Synonyms mastermind synonyms

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mastermind English » English

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Topics mastermind topics

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Conjugation mastermind conjugation

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mastermind · verb

Examples mastermind examples

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Simple sentences

Tom was the mastermind behind the fraud.
Mary was the mastermind behind the fraud.
Tom's squirrel was the mastermind behind the fraud.
Tom was the mastermind behind the theft of the crown jewels.
Tom was the mastermind behind the theft of the large ruby.
Tom was a mastermind.
He's no criminal mastermind. He's just a common thug.

Movie subtitles

For months the police sought the mastermind behind those crimes, the man behind the curtain.
Holmes, I understand that the recovery of the original would make it impossible for the thieves to sell any copies however excellent those copies were, but did you have any clue to the identity of the mastermind behind the whole scheme?
Ask the mastermind why he's here.
I'm no mastermind.
There is no doubt that this robbery is the work of a mastermind.
His is the mastermind.
Criminal mastermind.
The mastermind of the escape has been arrested.
How about that, mastermind?
He couldn't mastermind an electric light bulb out of a socket!
I give the richest province on the continent to John for what? You tell me, mastermind, for what.
I think he is the mastermind behind the whole organisation, which is why I let him go.
Let us not overlook the possibility of a mastermind who commands others to do his bidding.
The mastermind is over there.
Enter the mastermind.
Well, mastermind?
But he's the great Nick Charles, The Mastermind.
You and your mastermind.
Mastermind, big brain.
They're up against the mastermind.
Well, the old mastermind decided we needed a miracle so when you were talking to Dr. Bellows, I switched.
You tell me, mastermind, for what.
I know whom the great mastermind is.
I know who the mastermind is great.
That's the nice part of being with a mastermind you do the thinking for both of us.
All right, mastermind.
Where is he? Ask the mastermind what he's doing here.
Lauredi, the owner or Lauredi the white slave trade mastermind?
I thought you were the big mastermind, the guy who never pulled boo-boos.
If he's the mastermind, he can kill you all in one fell swoop.
They're up against the mastermind. Oh.
Oh, yes. Not only do I think that Milo Clancey is in league with the argonite pirates, I think he is the mastermind behind the whole organisation, which is why I let him go.
A mastermind or what?
The professor, the mastermind, is caught because he is looking at the legs of a girl dancing by the jukebox.
Keep a low profile. I want you to pinpoint who the real mastermind is.
The mastermind of the terrorists.
Mastermind of the terrorists?

News and current affairs

No wonder Fischer's quixotic pursuit of the championship led American policy mastermind Henry Kissinger to call Fischer and urge him not to back out, as he had threatened to do.
The American fantasy of a final battle, in Falluja or elsewhere, or the capture of some terrorist mastermind, perpetuates a cycle of bloodletting that puts the world in peril.
Will those norms be based upon my values, your values, prevailing scientific views, or perhaps the values of a political mastermind?
By June 2006, this effort was paying off. Jordanian agents were instrumental in providing the intelligence that enabled US forces to kill Abu Zarqawi, the mastermind of the Amman bombing.
The tactical mastermind of the Pearl Harbor operation, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was one of them.
Jordanian agents were instrumental in providing the intelligence that enabled US forces to kill Abu Zarqawi, the mastermind of the Amman bombing.

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