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UK
/mˈævən/
]
[ US /ˈmeɪvən/ ]
[ US /ˈmeɪvən/ ]
NOUN
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
How To Use maven In A Sentence
- BERNARD KALB, HOST: Molly, since we're practicing bilinguality, let me go from chutzpah to maven. CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: The Real Al Gore and George Bush: Is the Press Getting the Full Story or Falling for the Image? - March 25, 2000
- Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say. A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
- This fight was Maven whaling on Danielle, her wayward behavior, her sluttiness and her partying, her desirability. DEVILS IN EXILE
- These pure language mavens always come up with the notion people who use language that shocks their shell-pink ears are simply lacking in vocabulary.
- Besides, even style mavens occasionally have quandaries of their own. Times, Sunday Times
- Many specialists, former regulators, and industry mavens say they believe the new regime is moving in the right direction.
- Many marketers and brand mavens see them as identical.
- I swear to you, if my father starts wearing his beige and brown leisure suit again, I will make the fashion mavens responsible for this pay.
- But allow me to propose a spin-off, in which the British-born textile maven and author would walk us through the grand European manors and chateaus she's frequented. Monastic Fantastic
- He became the impeachment maven even though he had no clear expertise related to the questions at hand.