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Recent Examples of conversation piece
In a hot pink colorway, the clutch will become your vanity’s newest conversation piece.
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 22 May 2025
Make sure your patio space is decked out with these conversation pieces or pick up a new grill and get the family together this summer.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025
The experience is bound to be a conversation piece, especially three tequilas in.
—Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2025
The Hermès Macao Mahjong Set, (now retired) housed in a lacquered wood box with leather detailing, has become a conversation piece and collector’s item.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 22 May 2025
Make sure your patio space is decked out with these conversation pieces or pick up a new grill and get the family together this summer.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025
The experience is bound to be a conversation piece, especially three tequilas in.
—Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2025
The Hermès Macao Mahjong Set, (now retired) housed in a lacquered wood box with leather detailing, has become a conversation piece and collector’s item.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversation piece
Noun
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This tiny trinket box makes a perfect gift (especially paired with a little something sweet inside).—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
8 July 2025
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Temple Street Night Market is a favorite for trinkets and souvenirs.—
Taylor McIntyre,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2025
Noun
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There will also be baubles from Harry Winston and Van Cleef & Arpels.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
16 July 2025
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Their planning of the Brink’s heist allegedly began at the International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo, where, starting on July 8, 2022, jewelers displayed their baubles in booths under the glare of fluorescent light.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2025
Noun
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In our woeful orthography, choir, and liar rhyme, daughter and laughter don’t, and knickknack has four—count them, four—entirely useless K’s.—
Gabe Henry,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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Tired of lining Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg’s pockets without any return, Tapia recently spearheaded the work to open an accompanying online shop, the Los Feliz General Store, which sells shirts and knickknacks.—
Nate Rogers,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Non-native ornamentals, while attractive, simply don’t provide the food and shelter these insects need.—
Special to The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
27 July 2025
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Although annuals generally have the longest bloom time, there are some perennial ornamentals that are very attractive to hummingbirds and are worth considering for a garden or a landscape.—
Pamm Cooper,
Hartford Courant,
26 July 2025
Noun
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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.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2019
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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.—
David Pierce,
WIRED,
3 Nov. 2017
Noun
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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.—
Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
9 May 2022
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Bruno Magli’s luxe nappa leather bibelot upgrades the standard-issue, white plastic AirPods case.—
Kareem Rashed,
Robb Report,
16 Nov. 2021
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But there’s much more to the apartment than a mere accumulation of objets de vertu.—
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
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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.—
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
28 June 2024
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“Conversation piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversation%20piece. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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