stock in trade
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But the company has also been accused of overhyping the powers of a technology that is its stock in trade, and the subject of neck-and-neck competition with rival OpenAI.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Football commentator Martin Tyler's voice is his stock in trade.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024
Macras doesn’t go in for the shock tactics that are Holzinger’s stock in trade, but she still appears to take a page from the younger and more transgressive practitioner of dance theater.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023
That is the stock in trade of state, local and county prosecutors as opposed to federal prosecutors.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2022
Deuterons being the Rad Lab’s stock in trade, Lawrence commanded, “Let’s try it out.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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