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Recent Examples of conversation piece
Sports equipment as decor not only serves as a conversation piece but can also save storage space, which is great for athletics enthusiasts who reside in smaller quarters, such as apartments.
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Maddie Topliff,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Apr. 2026
One standout element is the sports card collection featuring athletes known for their famous mullet hairstyles — a quirky, beloved conversation piece for regulars and new visitors alike.
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Susan Stapleton,
Des Moines Register,
1 Mar. 2026
Vintage screen dividers add a conversation piece while also incorporating more function.
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Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
26 Feb. 2026
This complex challenge is perfect for older teens or adults and will serve as an impressive conversation piece wherever it's displayed.
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Jacquelyn Smith,
Parents,
27 Nov. 2025
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Maddie Topliff,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Apr. 2026
One standout element is the sports card collection featuring athletes known for their famous mullet hairstyles — a quirky, beloved conversation piece for regulars and new visitors alike.
—
Susan Stapleton,
Des Moines Register,
1 Mar. 2026
Vintage screen dividers add a conversation piece while also incorporating more function.
—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
26 Feb. 2026
This complex challenge is perfect for older teens or adults and will serve as an impressive conversation piece wherever it's displayed.
—
Jacquelyn Smith,
Parents,
27 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversation piece
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Others receive cheap trinkets, packing material or nothing at all.
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From there, the little trinkets can be placed on a keychain or string for display on a backpack or as a piece of jewelry.
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Margot Robbie is just the latest to borrow a bauble from Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry box.
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Nearby Lost Art Jewelry sells handmade baubles by a master goldsmith.
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But so can characters pushing the knickknack/plaything boundary, like porcelain figurines and piggy banks.
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A lot of those people have Victoria Baumann and Charlie Moreton to thank, the father-daughter duo behind Victoria Essie Studio that produces fidget toys and other knickknacks out of their homes in North Carolina.
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While the company has changed its product over the years, from produce to ornamentals, he's always grown to serve his local community.
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The plant was a Japanese yew, an ornamental that is toxic and deadly to horses, according to the report.
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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.
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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.
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The villas are filled with books, instruments, games, curios and thoughtful details that suggest actual living rather than generic hospitality design.
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Colleen keeps a curio cabinet full of mementos of a baby loved in her all too short life and beyond.
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Some of Jarrett’s favorites in the collection are the tchotchkes Obama kept on the campaign trail in 2007.
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The Patterson house is filled with children’s drawings, family memorabilia, tchotchkes, posters, plants, and a wide variety of domestic accoutrements, in an eye-catching spectrum of colors.
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But rental business owners like Zhao observed that the rental prices have begun to slide as novelty surrounding these stunt-performing androids fades.
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And the expansive format would be a particular novelty for the Kansas City area, where the spectacle of hosting six matches (and ultimately four base camps) would loom largest overlaid on the smallest of the sites.
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“Conversation piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversation%20piece. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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