bread and butter
Example Sentences
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Granted, the Emmys have made repetitiveness its bread and butter for decades now.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Recently it has joined the AI rush, deviating from its bread and butter of conventional infrastructure and blue-chip stocks, pumping money into several large AI data center funds, including one with asset manager Brookfield.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Further inflation would hurt economic demand, as well as banks’ bread and butter: loan volumes, corporate transaction volumes, and financial market activity.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
Roach acknowledges the market’s caution, given large language models are now threatening to do what has been the bread and butter of those companies.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
She explained—not too patiently—that a B & B letter is a bread and butter letter you write to people to thank them for having you as their houseguest.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
