tour de force
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deed, exploit, feat, number, stunt, trick
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LeBron James put on a real tour de force in Game 2 against the Pacers and Cleveland still nearly lost the game. — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, "Pacers Earn the Wrath of a Resolute LeBron James," 18 Apr. 2018 Fashion and Hollywood have long had a reciprocal relationship, but this shoot—conducted in New York over two days shortly before Christmas in what Ghesquière described as a tour de force of logistics—makes the synergies explicit. — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, "Who Needs a Runway? Nicolas Ghesquière Hires an A-List Power Posse For His Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall Lookbook," 14 Jan. 2019 His celebration of vibrant hues and diversity was the season’s tour de force. — Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, "5 Takeaways From Spring 2019 Couture," 26 Jan. 2019 Wise, a month shy of his 22nd birthday, won his first PGA Tour title in last week’s AT&T Byron Nelson behind a tour de force display of maturity, composure and ball-striking. — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, "Aaron Wise, 21, delays celebrating first Tour title, eyes second title," 23 May 2018 With a colorful, vintage-inspired fashion sense that has garnered its own following, Jessica Williams is a millennial style tour de force. — Reed Krakoff, Town & Country, "Tiffany & Co. Wants to Change the Rules of How to Wear a Diamond," 27 Nov. 2018 The photographic tour de force, a five-page foldout, connects then and now in a continuum of the society’s legacy of conservation. — Cathy Newman, WSJ, "Saving Earth’s Oldest Living Things," 7 Dec. 2018 His opening scene, in which 24 chiefs of German industry assemble in Berlin in 1933 to pay tribute to Hitler—high-ups from Siemens, Opel and I.G. Farben among them—is a tour de force. — James Campbell, WSJ, "‘The Order of the Day’ Review: When Adolf Came," 27 Sep. 2018 That was a tour de force from FDR betraying Central Europe-- HANNITY: Right. GORKA: -- right up through Khrushchev and Kennedy. — Fox News, "Mark Levin on media freakout over Trump-Putin summit," 18 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tour de force.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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