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Recent Examples of pièce de résistance
Soak in the piece de resistance—the hamam bath.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
Grab ice cream by one, two or three scoops or throw caution to the wind and go for the piece de resistance, her sundaes.
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Bahar Anooshahr,
AZCentral.com,
19 Mar. 2026
Maybe Prussian blue is a little easier to wear than orange, red and black, the colors of the German flag, but the piece de resistance was the tiara.
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Monique Jessen,
PEOPLE,
19 Dec. 2025
But the piece de resistance is a small button on the face of the guitar that, when pressed, activates a chip on a soundboard that elicits the distinctive roar of Godzilla.
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New Atlas,
24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pièce de résistance
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
Grab ice cream by one, two or three scoops or throw caution to the wind and go for the piece de resistance, her sundaes.
—
Bahar Anooshahr,
AZCentral.com,
19 Mar. 2026
Maybe Prussian blue is a little easier to wear than orange, red and black, the colors of the German flag, but the piece de resistance was the tiara.
—
Monique Jessen,
PEOPLE,
19 Dec. 2025
But the piece de resistance is a small button on the face of the guitar that, when pressed, activates a chip on a soundboard that elicits the distinctive roar of Godzilla.
—
New Atlas,
24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pièce de résistance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pièce de résistance
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Smith was already at Primavera to play — The Cure headlined the festival on Friday, their first show since their 2024 magnum opus Songs of a Lost World, one of their best albums ever.
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This research wouldn't have been possible with a quirk of the cosmos first posited by Albert Einstein in his 1915 magnum opus theory of gravity, general relativity.
Noun
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In Sally Potter’s 1992 masterpiece Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s classic novel of a British aristocrat who is born in the Elizabethan era and goes on to live for hundreds of years—oh, and who also changes genders at around the age of 30—is brought to bold and brilliant visual life.
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First-time visitors can expect a labyrinthine world—55 rooms, taking up over 21,00 square feet in all over five floors—connected by three lifts and four staircases, the most dramatic of which is a spiral masterpiece originally designed by Foster + Partners and extended as part of the renovation.
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“Pièce de résistance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pi%C3%A8ce%20de%20r%C3%A9sistance. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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