metier

While Karadzic was the ideologue and Milosevic the wily politician, Mladic was the soldier and his metier was waging war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

It is his metier, his medium, his world view.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

“Ambiguity” is an apt word for Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic metier.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2016

At first he saw himself as a satirist and that was his metier.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2012

“But I have arrived at no conclusion. The elucidation of crime is your metier, not mine, my friend.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Mr. Paré-Poupart is in his element when describing the men with whom he’s worked, misfits all yet high-functioning pros in the mucky métier they’ve chosen for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Huneven’s mother was a fierce critic whose métier was the unprovoked insult.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

Ian believes her willingness to write about uncomfortable subjects has become her métier.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2022

And so, in the sense of the schools, he is not a philosopher at all; quite the contrary, an implacable enemy of the métier.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in her speech saluted the “love story between Paris and Dior,” as a house that has managed to keep its “prized” métiers and know-how in France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2017

The métiers here progress from embroidery and featherwork, through artificial flowers, pleating, lace and leatherwork.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2016

Karl Lagerfeld created a collection around these métiers, and the first shows were small affairs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2013

The old man of many métiers has never led an idle life, and dislikes leading it.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

By mid-18th century the craft of joiner and carpenter had been completely rationalized in Diderot's Encyclopédie and by André Roubo in his L'Art du menuisier, a part of Duhamel's Descriptions des arts et métiers.

From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh