metier

Example Sentences

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Huneven’s mother was a fierce critic whose métier was the unprovoked insult.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

Already you anticipate that some of these interviews aren’t going to go Leonard’s way as Schrader’s métier, the language of self-excoriating doubt, finds voice.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024

Daubechies’ métier is figuring out optimal ways to represent and analyze images and information.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

The 48-year-old Californian traveled a rocky path to his novel métier.

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2021

To follow him, and punish guilt, was the métier of my companion; to follow her, and rescue innocence, was the rôle cast for me.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne