stock in trade

Example Sentences

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“And yet, that was her stock in trade,” Ayres said.

From Washington Post

Household subjects are Barth’s stock in trade.

From Los Angeles Times

The industry is reckoning with declines in profitability amid investor uncertainty and a series of interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve that have made it costlier to borrow money to buy and restructure companies, which is private equity’s stock in trade.

From New York Times

Macras doesn’t go in for the shock tactics that are Holzinger’s stock in trade, but she still appears to take a page from the younger and more transgressive practitioner of dance theater.

From New York Times

Desperation, illness and frailty happen to be Ermonela Jaho’s stock in trade.

From New York Times