tour de force
Example Sentences
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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
But it was a tour de force from the NFL’s No. 1 destroyers of offense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
David Galperin, head of contemporary art at Sotheby's New York, called it Cattelan's "tour de force".
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
But he didn’t stop there, offering an analysis of judicial precedent that was a moral tour de force.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
Lincoln’s speech was a political as well as a literary tour de force, and what was really clever about it—not to mention cheeky—was that he used it, in effect, to game the Constitution.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
