pièce de résistance
Example Sentences
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But this was O'Neill's piece de resistance - his moment, his day.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
Welcome to Earth One, the piece de resistance at CalEarth, an educational campus and nonprofit organization in Hesperia that, for the last three decades, has championed a building style known as the SuperAdobe.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025
But the piece de resistance was most certainly the bacon jam.
From Salon • May 21, 2024
Ermotti may need to persuade Switzerland's authorities that UBS should keep "the piece de resistance," Credit Suisse's domestic bank, said Porta's Wittmann.
From Reuters • Mar. 29, 2023
From such localities the elusive piece de resistance was often rescued.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
