stock in trade

Example Sentences

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As a fighter whose stock in trade is the knockout, British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley feels he can't criticise people for craving a spectacle he very much wants to supply.

From BBC • May 8, 2024

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