mastered

Gibbon anticipated — and Augustus mastered — something very much like Trump’s false bonding with plebeians:

“We were challenged, and we figured out how to continue leveling up from a level we had already mastered. We aren’t allowed to go backward.”

By his twenties, he had mastered complex photographic techniques like the collodion process, enabling him to develop large-format glass plates under harsh conditions.

Do you recall the first dish you felt like you really "mastered?"

China has mastered the ability to refine such metals, and produced almost 90% of global refined output.