metier
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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
They are a foursome who have not yet relaxed into their metier.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
“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
Weber’s métier is working in industrial corridors in redlined neighborhoods helping communities of color heal from the effects of environmental and social ills, often a lengthy and collaborative process.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
Already you anticipate that some of these interviews aren’t going to go Leonard’s way as Schrader’s métier, the language of self-excoriating doubt, finds voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
It “lacks focus and stability,” he wrote, “its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
I suppose they had the feeling which the razor has when it is used for cutting stones: they would feel that it was not exactly their métier.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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
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
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
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Murder on the Orient Express
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