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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The State of the Union address is one of the great set pieces of American public life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eleven minutes later Andrew McBride saw his set piece effort deflected past the post by a defender's stick.
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The Laurel and Hardy set piece was the ordinary situation from which sprang a coiling spiral of disaster.
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We might think, in retrospect, that it was a set piece of rather obvious connivance.