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In other words, learning the new skill had changed the inner workings of the adult animals’ motor cortexes; practicing a well-mastered one had not.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 1457

The opinions she voiced were manifestly not her own, as though she was reciting a well-mastered lesson.

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham

For his method he adopted his own well-mastered and transcendent art of brotherly persuasion.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

Beyond a momentary shrinking from what seemed to her but well-mastered vehemence, she gave him no thought in her overwhelming solicitude.

From Without a Home by Roe, Edward Payson