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

He worked for a time in a role he labeled “so-called managing editor,” but he did not discover a lifelong métier in the work.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 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