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
It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023
His métier is family: the way we are shaped by it and the way we push back on or move beyond it; how it both supports and limits us.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022
Ian believes her willingness to write about uncomfortable subjects has become her métier.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2022
That he was a crook I had no doubt, but what his actual métier was I could not discover.
From The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance by Le Queux, William
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