Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for objet trouvé
Noun
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The task now is to preserve, with legal integrity, evidence of the Assad regime’s crimes — to transform these thousands of photographs, documents, and found objects into prosecutable evidence.—
Lynzy Billing,
The Dial,
24 July 2025 -
During the two-week-long search, investigators also found objects like shotgun shells and handcuffs.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
3 July 2025
Noun
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While some objets d'art are thrifted finds, many are custom made by artists and producers Gelman has found—or who have found Gelman.—
Jess Feldman,
Travel + Leisure,
20 June 2025
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Throughout, there are design nods to the building’s former purpose with pleated headboards evoking the folds of judicial robes and legal scales doubling as objets d'art, while the muted color palette feels lifted from a Dutch Old Master.—
Nicole Trilivas,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Fewer exotics than past expansions, far fewer, in many instances.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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These are very tastefully laid off, with walks and carriage drives, and are covered with a profusion of rare exotics, beautiful flowers, and semi-tropical plants of every variety known to this climate.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
4 July 2025
Noun
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Holy rara avis, Batman!—
Peter Mehlman,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Nov. 2020
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Sitting in the center, with a passenger seat to the left and right, the lucky driver will feel equally at home in the US, the UK or anywhere a long stretch of pavement invites this rara avis to soar.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
21 June 2021
Noun
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Walk through the quaint lobby to find another hidden gem, the Sax Garden, a romantic French-style garden restaurant, complete with a heated outdoor pool (a rarity in Paris), checkerboard marble floors and green foliage.—
Nicole Trilivas,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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This difficult position might explain why Putin’s grip over even his own loyal underlings is slipping as more economic officials speak out with warnings over the dire state of the economy—a rarity in Putin’s command and control system.—
Time,
Time,
9 Aug. 2025
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“Objet trouvé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/objet%20trouv%C3%A9. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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