piece de resistance
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But this was O'Neill's piece de resistance - his moment, his day.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
You'll be able to master the piece de resistance of the Thanksgiving tablescape before you know it.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 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
She returns for the piece de resistance — the pas de deux of the Sugarplum Fairy and her Cavalier, with its dramatic soaring lifts and fish dives.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
Each family is an authority in itself as to the choice of the piece de resistance.
From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Wilson, Mary A.
But the pièce de résistance of her spooky spread?
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
But its pièce de résistance for Roffman was Caselotti herself, who was home that afternoon and happy to entertain strangers with her cherubic singsong cadence.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
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
If you want to buy a Birkin bag, the pièce de résistance from the French luxury retailer Hermès, you should know that you probably can’t.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
At the end of the last century large portions of the old Roman wall were traceable in many places, but time has devoured almost the last morsels of that great pièce de résistance.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
