tour de force

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The victory over the three-time Champions League winners, who are sitting pretty atop Serie A, continued Bodo's surprise tour de force in the competition.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

"This isn't a flawless night but it's a tour de force even so."

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Her history of Kleenex tissues is a tour de force: We learn that the Kimberly-Clark Corp., which owns Kleenex, played on the fear that reusable handkerchiefs were essentially wads of tuberculosis germs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

A tour de force that sent the Dodgers to the World Series.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

Its rolling periods, its fine orotundities, its balanced pairs, and its vivid sense of how history pivoted on this moment, on these men ... it was a tour de force.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith