stock in trade
Example Sentences
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But the company has also been accused of overhyping the powers of a technology that is its stock in trade, and the subject of neck-and-neck competition with rival OpenAI.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
As a fighter whose stock in trade is the knockout, British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley feels he can't criticise people for craving a spectacle he very much wants to supply.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
That alternation between the serious and the absurd was the series’ stock in trade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
That is the stock in trade of state, local and county prosecutors as opposed to federal prosecutors.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022
Deuterons being the Rad Lab’s stock in trade, Lawrence commanded, “Let’s try it out.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
