bread and butter
Example Sentences
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Granted, the Emmys have made repetitiveness its bread and butter for decades now.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
The company was exploring gate-based models early on, but abandoned those efforts in favor of differentiating itself through its focus on annealing, which has since become its bread and butter.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
Recently it has joined the AI rush, deviating from its bread and butter of conventional infrastructure and blue-chip stocks, pumping money into several large AI data center funds, including one with asset manager Brookfield.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Roach acknowledges the market’s caution, given large language models are now threatening to do what has been the bread and butter of those companies.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
Sean, Josie, Peggy, come in for yeer tea, come in at wanst for the fresh bread and butter and the gorgeous blue duck egg what no one else in the lane have.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
