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masterless

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[ma-ster-lis] / ˈmæ stər lɪs /

adjective

  1. not having a master.


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He is also readying for his transfer to Japan by training intensively with a ronin, or masterless samurai, named Tetsuo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

It seems unlikely that Christie will be content to continue wandering the earth like a masterless samurai, a ronin.

From New York Times Jan. 28, 2019

Watching this, I thought of, in feudal Japan, the example of the ronin, the masterless samurai.

From Slate May 30, 2018

Vardi, a professor at Rice University and Guggenheim fellow, said that technology presents a more subtle threat than the masterless drones that some activists fear.

From The Guardian Feb. 13, 2016

But it was taken by fell men whom the Enemy in his first strength had dominated, and who wandered homeless and masterless after his fall.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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