Mastermind

Definitions

1. A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill that is markedly superior to their peers.
2. A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“At long intervals some master-minds appeared, looking upon each advance in practical science as a retro-gradation in the true utility.”

“His first outside hire⟳ wasn't an electronics whiz or a mechanical mastermind, but a young industrial designer, a creature hitherto unknown at DEKA.”

“The first was with none other than Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.”

“Prosecutors later suspected that Wang, chairman of Ciji Temple in Tainan's Syuejia District, was the mastermind behind the shootings, but the court acquitted him of the charge because of insufficient evidence.”

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