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Example sentences for: maven

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More important, even VandeHei eventually admits they wouldn't be particularly unqualified: Baxter, he notes, is a "defense maven" who has "written for Jane's Intelligence Review " and "chairs a ballistic missile defense advisory group for Representative Curt Weldon."
Like clockword--I mean clockwork , of course--Bill Safire's books come down the pike, each inscribed with a friendly greeting from the man described as “the language maven.”
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).
Uncowed by the posturing and brinkmanship attributed to both sides, Albright quickly switched gears, from passive envoy to diplomacy maven.