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forte

[fawrt, fohrt, fawr-tey] / fɔrt, foʊrt, ˈfɔr teɪ /


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Life specialized in photo essays in which the pictures did not illustrate the story but told it, and this was Smith’s forte.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Affordability has always been St. Louis’s forte, local real-estate agents told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

“His forte is listening,” Cooke, the biographer, said of Lesch, whose polite, unassuming manner reflects an adult life spent mostly in San Antonio.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

The odds are stacked against Musetti, who is into the last eight at Melbourne for the first time, with clay and grass his usual forte.

From Barron's Jan. 28, 2026

Waiting on table was certainly not his forte; he had still to master platters and serving implements, and would fling the food down however he could.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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