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
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
Welcome to the Mayhem Ball, a magnificent and operatic tour de force; that pitches the star's inner angels and demons in a fight for her very soul.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 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
