bread and butter
Example Sentences
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Recently it has joined the AI rush, deviating from its bread and butter of conventional infrastructure and blue-chip stocks, pumping money into several large AI data center funds, including one with asset manager Brookfield.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Roach acknowledges the market’s caution, given large language models are now threatening to do what has been the bread and butter of those companies.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
“History shows it’s bread and butter issues that typically work best,” he said.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
But messages about the values of imparting empathy are part of the bread and butter of “Star Trek” and she welcomed that.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026
The main course plates had long been cleared away and Betty had returned with the bread and butter pudding.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
