as in composition
a literary, musical, or artistic production
the composer's final opus was performed posthumously to great acclaim
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The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg has had enough of conservatives crowing over Beyoncé winning Best Country Album at the Grammy Awards for her 2024 genre-hopping opus Cowboy Carter — and making history at Sunday's ceremony as the first Black artist to win the award.
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Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
The prison opus has, decidedly, been a catastrophe since Slick Rick released his regrettable 1994 album Behind Bars while serving a three-to-10 murder charge.
—Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Blomkamp has a long history with Sony having made sci-fi opuses District 9, Chappie and Elysium with the Culver City lot as well as the feature take of Sony PlayStation game Gran Turismo, which was released during the strikes and grossed more than $122 million worldwide.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
Belinda, returning from The White Lotus season one, finally and fully clocks Greg, the murderous BLM (Bureau of Land Management) agent played by Jon Gries in all three seasons of Mike White’s vacation opus.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2025
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Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
The prison opus has, decidedly, been a catastrophe since Slick Rick released his regrettable 1994 album Behind Bars while serving a three-to-10 murder charge.
—Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Blomkamp has a long history with Sony having made sci-fi opuses District 9, Chappie and Elysium with the Culver City lot as well as the feature take of Sony PlayStation game Gran Turismo, which was released during the strikes and grossed more than $122 million worldwide.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
Belinda, returning from The White Lotus season one, finally and fully clocks Greg, the murderous BLM (Bureau of Land Management) agent played by Jon Gries in all three seasons of Mike White’s vacation opus.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2025
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Still another composition features a Google Translate interpretation of an essay Vara wrote in Spanish, which contains both mistranslations and stretches where the software turned flawed Spanish into grammatical English.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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The thickness and composition of the Martian atmosphere over time is also an open question.—
Jonathan O’Callaghan,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Apr. 2025
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Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece.—
Janelle Gelfand,
Cincinnati.com,
19 July 2017
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This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction.—
Janine Barchas,
Washington Post,
18 July 2017
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And parenting is different from other stressors that most humans are subjected to: A big work project ultimately ends, but motherhood just keeps going.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
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Other works expressed deep concern for his country.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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This streamer is one for movie lovers, featuring everything from cult classics to modern masterpieces.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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At the heart of the home, the chef’s kitchen is a true masterpiece of design and function.—
Rowan Briggs,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Opus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opus. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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