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pièce de résistance

[pyes duh rey-zee-stahns, pee-es duh ri-zee-stahns] / pjɛs də reɪ ziˈstɑ̃s, piˈɛs də rɪ ziˈstɑns /


piece de resistance


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But the pièce de résistance of her spooky spread?

From Salon Oct. 27, 2025

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

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 Walter Thornbury

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

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

The piece de resistance of the dinner was, in this instance, to be a mackerel.

From Shavings by Joseph Crosby Lincoln




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