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metier

[mey-tyey, mey-tyey] / ˈmeɪ tyeɪ, meɪˈtyeɪ /


métier


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

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

Growing up in Rhode Island, she had found her voice in the church choir and her métier on the radio.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

His métier is family: the way we are shaped by it and the way we push back on or move beyond it; how it both supports and limits us.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022

But she is very handsome; she is very clever; she is useful to me—I need not say how nor why; that belongs to my métier as politician.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various




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