métier

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

The giant wiener was created by Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw, married Brooklyn artists whose métier is often interactive, food-based spectaculars that also question the lore — and lure — of Americana.

From New York Times • May 7, 2024

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

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 Hope, Anthony