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

Growing up in Rhode Island, she had found her voice in the church choir and her métier on the radio.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 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

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

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2021

For men scientific work has to a large extent become a métier, and success, as in industry, depends on a division of labor.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine