métier

Mr. Paré-Poupart is in his element when describing the men with whom he’s worked, misfits all yet high-functioning pros in the mucky métier they’ve chosen for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

Weber’s métier is working in industrial corridors in redlined neighborhoods helping communities of color heal from the effects of environmental and social ills, often a lengthy and collaborative process.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2024

It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

Up to now he had been content with the politics of his métier, the politics of a man trying to build up a business.

From Second String by Anthony Hope

While Karadzic was the ideologue and Milosevic the wily politician, Mladic was the soldier and his metier was waging war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

It is his metier, his medium, his world view.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

“Ambiguity” is an apt word for Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic metier.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2016

"Unflinching, real-time depiction of conflict" is Carvin's metier, according to the book's press notes.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2012

“But I have arrived at no conclusion. The elucidation of crime is your metier, not mine, my friend.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in her speech saluted the “love story between Paris and Dior,” as a house that has managed to keep its “prized” métiers and know-how in France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2017

The métiers here progress from embroidery and featherwork, through artificial flowers, pleating, lace and leatherwork.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2016

Karl Lagerfeld created a collection around these métiers, and the first shows were small affairs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2013

The old man of many métiers has never led an idle life, and dislikes leading it.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

By mid-18th century the craft of joiner and carpenter had been completely rationalized in Diderot's Encyclopédie and by André Roubo in his L'Art du menuisier, a part of Duhamel's Descriptions des arts et métiers.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh