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• n  the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection

• There are the ballads, deep as wall-to-wall pile, and there is the violent showpiece Smooth Criminal.
• Thus one night last week began Fidel Castro's showpiece trial, first of a planned 1,000 trials in the Havana area, for a captured underling of exiled Dictator Fulgencio Batista.
• More of a corporate showpiece than an actual product (on the market it would fetch about as much as a BMW), Qrio can walk uphill, sing, dance, wave hello, wiggle its fingers and .

• collector's item
• piece de resistance

News & Articles

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• Soccer-Korea coach vows to make Queiroz watch World Cup on TV
  SEOUL, June 17 (Reuters) - Iran coach Carlos Queiroz will have to watch next year's World Cup in Brazil on television, his South Korean counterpart Choi Kang-hee said on the eve of the teams' decisive qualifier. The two coaches have traded verbal volleys in the lead-up to Tuesday's Asia Group A clash in Ulsan as they bid to secure automatic qualifying spots for the 2014 showpiece event. ...
  June 17, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
• Resurgent Egypt, Ethiopia into final WCup playoffs
  JOHANNESBURG — Egypt and Ethiopia went through to the final World Cup playoffs on Sunday and Libya is almost there, creating a group of unlikely contenders for Africa's five places at the world showpiece. Egypt and Libya have defied major political unrest to challenge for a spot in Brazil next year. Ethiopia followed on from its first appearance at the African Cup in 30 years by reaching the ...
  June 16, 2013 - Boston Herald
• Soccer-Malaysia fans offered cash reward to police FA Cup final
  June 14 (Reuters) - Sick and tired of crowd violence marring matches, the Football Association of Malaysia will offer fans a financial reward if they catch hooligans causing trouble at the FA Cup final later this month. The FAM said supporters would be given 1,000 Malaysian Ringgit ($320) for their 'policework' during the showpiece final between Kelantan and Johor Darul Takzim at the National ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Mark Ramprakash in guardian.co.uk
  When asked if he was interested, Ramprakash replied: "Yes, of course, I'd be thrilled. This Test match has been built up now into a fantastic showpiece occasion. Whoever's selected for it, as a player it's the sort of occasion you'd cherish and...
• Tom Harley in The Age
  It could be a preview for a qualifying final in a month's time,Harley said. "It's a showpiece game for the AFL and we won't be taking our foot off the accelerator at all. We are on a hot streak and you've got to cash your cheques when...
• Dale Jarrett in SportingNews.com
  The decision is a vote of confidence in the federal courts and in civilian prosecutors and there are still some safeguards in place to ensure that Mohammed doesn't turn the trial into a religious or political showpiece. There also are ways in which... Andrew Cohen http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cohen_(spiritual_teacher)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH4c1kq227tiomRRbgao59o94aewQ CBS News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/13/national/main5634175.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHFoI2YGzED-2CoLFCVxUtAfcgJrQ Nov 13, 2009 89655 119329 showplace It showed me that day that it was something I wanted to do even more than I ever wanted to before," Jarrett said. "It was my first opportunity at a big race track and the showplace of NASCAR racing. I knew that I wanted to come back here."