métier
Example Sentences
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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
This year, he said, the Swedish whispers have been about poetry, which last got acknowledged as a winner’s primary metier in 1996 with Wislawa Szymborska.
From BusinessWeek • Oct. 3, 2011
“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
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Murder on the Orient Express
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