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Example sentences for: maven

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The H-bomb-headed domestic policy maven turned criminal was convicted and imprisoned for his role in the Watergate cover-up and the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
I'm indebted to Republican political maven Rich Galen and his e-mail newsletter "Mullings" for putting the Hillary interview in its proper context: It's the media's "August story," an overhyped journalistic frenzy designed to cover the fact that when the shrinks go on vacation, there is virtually no real news.
And right next to that piece is an op-ed by Washington-based public ethics maven Charles Lewis.
For the Shakespeare maven, this one-volume lexicon could become habit-forming.
This is the subversively lovable Waters of Hairspray (1988) rather than the in-your-face deformity maven of Pink Flamingos (1972) and the more mainstream Cry Baby (1990) and Serial Mom (1994).