stock in trade

Example Sentences

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“And yet, that was her stock in trade,” Ayres said.

From Washington Post

Naturalization ceremonies are the stock in trade of American news organizations: the speeches, the number of countries represented among the applicants and the pictures of newly minted Americans waving miniature American flags.

From Los Angeles Times

Of course, logic is not the protesters’ stock in trade.

From Washington Post

Trump was typically offensive even in that formal setting, peppering his speech with comments such as "this is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history," and "a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe" which became his stock in trade over the next year as he finally settled on "China virus" and "Kung flu" as the xenophobic catch phrases of choice.

From Salon

This pivot to transparency makes him the patriarch of a family that has lately made intimacy its stock in trade.

From New York Times