metier
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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
To follow him, and punish guilt, was the métier of my companion; to follow her, and rescue innocence, was the rôle cast for me.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
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