piece de resistance

France looked effortlessly cool throughout in the sweltering Seville heat - the piece de resistance of that all-timer of a home kit.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

In a procession all their own, the group trooped to the village store for the piece de resistance, installing the crown atop the post box out front.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

It is lovely over a salad, atop avocado toast, or — of course — in Eggs Benedict, arguably the piece de resistance of poached egg dishes.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023

Planners envisioned the tower as the piece de resistance of a full-on economic revitalization with the declared aim of nothing less than “changing the mind-set of Jeddah.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

It is the literary piece de resistance of the age in which we live.

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye

Jack and Sally’s fated romance is the final piece of the puzzle, the pièce de résistance that helps De Palma’s film rise above the other thrillers of its ilk.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Its pièce de résistance is its very own AI model, called the Large Nature Model.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2024

As the pièce de résistance, she harnessed herself to a Chevy Silverado — which itself was attached to a food truck trailer — and dragged it 40 feet in 40 seconds.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024

His pièce de résistance was riding through the dining room after dinner on a bicycle with a port tray balanced on the handlebars, a trick that was noted in his obituary in The Telegraph.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

To-day the Skipper composed an Irish stew as a pièce de résistance, which, when it came to table, was unanimously voted the best of all the excellent dishes on which we have feasted here.

From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck