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art form

 noun
     
art form [countable]
1 a way of expressing ideas, for example in a painting, dance, piece of writing etc:
Music is quite unlike any other art form.
2

make/turn something into an art form

to do something so often that you become very good at it:
a company that's in danger of turning mismanagement into an art form
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