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Recent Examples of conversation piece
Available exclusively at Saks Fifth Avenue, Louboutin’s debut eyewear collection—filled with conversation pieces—is a welcome addition to the eyewear market.
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Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025
As a conversation piece, the Index might inspire reforms such as regulatory budgeting, regulatory reduction commissions, or requiring congressional approval of agency rules.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The spider was also a popular conversation piece among campers.
—Brennan Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
Think of them as the ultimate conversation piece.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2024
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Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025
As a conversation piece, the Index might inspire reforms such as regulatory budgeting, regulatory reduction commissions, or requiring congressional approval of agency rules.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The spider was also a popular conversation piece among campers.
—Brennan Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
Think of them as the ultimate conversation piece.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversation piece
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Always tip in cash (no gift cards or homemade trinkets), and leave your tip somewhere where it can be easily found.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
16 June 2025
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The North Hollywood house, which songwriter Allee Willis first purchased in 1980 and turned into a living ode to all things kitsch, is awash in trinkets and tchotchkes.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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But like many of the other notables on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris borrowed the baubles for the night.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
6 May 2025
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Snap up one, or both styles, and watch your mom beam as bright as the baubles themselves.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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In our woeful orthography, choir, and liar rhyme, daughter and laughter don’t, and knickknack has four—count them, four—entirely useless K’s.—
Gabe Henry,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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Tired of lining Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg’s pockets without any return, Tapia recently spearheaded the work to open an accompanying online shop, the Los Feliz General Store, which sells shirts and knickknacks.—
Nate Rogers,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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To maintain healthy ornamentals that bloom abundantly, avoid pruning these 10 plants in summer.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 June 2025
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Today, crabapple trees—tough ornamentals native to the Central Asian mountains—blanket Detroit.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2019
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Even its colors, silver and space gray, seem to have been chosen for their lack of gaud—no blingy gold model here.—
David Pierce,
WIRED,
3 Nov. 2017
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The painting then remained in the artist’s possession and out of public sight until it was bought, in 1927, as a chic bibelot for a swanky members-only social club in London.—
Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
9 May 2022
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Bruno Magli’s luxe nappa leather bibelot upgrades the standard-issue, white plastic AirPods case.—
Kareem Rashed,
Robb Report,
16 Nov. 2021
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But there’s much more to the apartment than a mere accumulation of objets de vertu.—
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
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Crawford is an inveterate collector, a hunter-gatherer par excellence, and her home is a testament to decades spent amassing oddities and objets de vertu of every stripe.—
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
28 June 2024
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“Conversation piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversation%20piece. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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