stock in trade
Example Sentences
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A paper in Nature traces how dinosaurs became the dominant animals on the planet in the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods by using fossilized dung and vomit, rather than paleontologists’ usual stock in trade, bones, and teeth.
From Science Magazine
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
Football commentator Martin Tyler's voice is his stock in trade.
From BBC
National Review defended itself and Steyn’s column with the sort of vacuous braggadocio that is its stock in trade.
From Los Angeles Times
That alternation between the serious and the absurd was the series’ stock in trade.
From Los Angeles Times
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