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Recent Examples of conversation piece
The spider was also a popular conversation piece among campers.
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Brennan Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
Think of them as the ultimate conversation piece.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2024
In the beauty world, there are seldom topics that are as big a conversation piece as Taylor Swift’s favorite lipstick.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
Those teal jackets were a conversation piece on social media and some want to buy one.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversation piece
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The same goes for my nightstands, which are also fairly small and constantly occupied by my Kindle, physical books, water bottle, and trinkets.—
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So long as Netanyahu refuses to go along with any of Trump’s grand diplomatic initiatives, which might require him to end the Gaza war or entertain some semblance of Palestinian statehood, Israel has nothing to give Trump other than symbolic trinkets.—
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Inside the vast, white manufacturing hall, bags and bags of blood dangle overhead, suspended from a steel rail like macabre baubles.—
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That includes this compact jewelry box that has a zip closure to keep your necklaces, earrings, and other baubles secure, as well as little pockets and slots for organization.—
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The wooden East African-style doors, Persian rugs, ornate Moroccan vases, bright artworks, and various knickknacks add to the camp’s colorful maximalist vibe.—
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On a rainy March morning in Studio City, Los Angeles, Kaitlyn Dever and I meet up to paint ceramic knickknacks.—
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Many deciduous ornamentals including redbuds, forsythia, crabapples, fruit trees, quince azaleas and many others were not adversely affected by last summer’s drought and the cold, windy winter and frozen soils that followed.—
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Companion plants for ornamentals such as hydrangeas are selected for aesthetic purposes.—
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At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.—
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Even its colors, silver and space gray, seem to have been chosen for their lack of gaud—no blingy gold model here.—
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The painting then remained in the artist’s possession and out of public sight until it was bought, in 1927, as a chic bibelot for a swanky members-only social club in London.—
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Bruno Magli’s luxe nappa leather bibelot upgrades the standard-issue, white plastic AirPods case.—
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But there’s much more to the apartment than a mere accumulation of objets de vertu.—
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Crawford is an inveterate collector, a hunter-gatherer par excellence, and her home is a testament to decades spent amassing oddities and objets de vertu of every stripe.—
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“Conversation piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversation%20piece. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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