long suit

noun

Definition of long suitnext
as in specialty
something for which a person shows a special talent one-on-one politicking is her long suit

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Recent Examples of long suit The announcement that Live Nation has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice, resolving a years-long suit alleging anticompetitive practices, likely answers the biggest question facing the concert behemoth. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026 Being alone was not my long suit. — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026 Discarding correctly when declarer cashes a long suit can tax even a world-class partnership, and East-West might have gone wrong here. — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2024 Pair long suit shorts with a matching jacket or basic long-sleeve tee, or jorts with a crop top and kitten heels. — Ebony-Renee Baker, refinery29.com, 28 May 2024 But telling a semi-coherent story that an idiot like me can easily understand, well, that is not his long suit. — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023 After taking the stage in a cool all-brown look comprised of a long suit coat, button-down blouse, and distressed slacks, Palmer addressed some recent pregnancy rumors. — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Dec. 2022 Boston Dynamics is really starting to be successful doing commercial stuff, and that’s not my long suit. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for long suit
  1. specialty
  2. speciality
  3. thing
  4. domain
Noun
  • In Arizona, the impact could be felt through higher prices on products made with Canadian materials or imported from Canada, including some building supplies, specialty foods, dairy products and alcoholic beverages.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Community members have been buying their veggies, fruit and specialty goods at the open-air market for the past 26 years, until its closure in 2025 due to the Palisades Fire.
    — Julie Sharp, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of specialty
Noun
  • Order an excellent steak or burger or opt for Irish specialities like fish and chips or steak and mushroom pie.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2026
  • About a third of the rate increase requests are due to rising prescription drug costs - driven largely by high prices for speciality medications and substantial increases in the use of GLP-1 drugs.
    — Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of speciality
Noun
  • There are few things more beautiful than the corona, the sun’s atmosphere, visible only during total solar eclipses like the one that occurred last week over a narrow swath of eastern Greenland, western Iceland and Spain.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In the 1990s, few lawmakers under the Gold Dome had the ability to get things done like Walker.
    — Riley Bunch, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of thing
Noun
  • Understand The Buyer’s Business Case A premium domain’s value usually depends on the buyer’s business case, not the seller’s personal attachment.
    — Michael Gargiulo, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Proprietary data, application layer, domain fine tuning, agent frameworks and rigorous evaluation harnesses outlast any base model advantage.
    — Mark Minevich, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of domain

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“Long suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/long%20suit. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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