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
Already you anticipate that some of these interviews aren’t going to go Leonard’s way as Schrader’s métier, the language of self-excoriating doubt, finds voice.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024
It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023
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
Writing is not my métier: I prefer a silverpoint or a chalk drawing or the infinite pleasure of oil colors.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
