long suit

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Recent Examples of long suit 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 Against notrump, the defense can prevail in two ways: by setting up a long suit or by depriving declarer of a source of tricks. Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024 Discarding correctly when declarer is running a long suit can tax even a world-class partnership. Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 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 My long suit is to dream, and to do the long-term stuff. IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2022 Boston Dynamics is really starting to be successful doing commercial stuff, and that’s not my long suit. IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2022 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for long suit
Noun
  • The diversification of financial securities under blockchain protocols is precisely the specialty of these protocols.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
  • The medieval sword was given to a specialty conservation workshop for further preservation and analysis, Science in Poland said in a July 4 news release.
    Aspen Pflughoeft July 4, Miami Herald, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • My partner’s speciality is pasta: the fresh, handmade kind, delicately sheeted and crimped into intricate shapes.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 14 June 2025
  • Local specialities reared on these soils—a treasure trove of black Périgord truffles, pâtés, foie gras, walnuts, cheeses, cep mushrooms, and strawberries.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The downside is that each method has a potential reaction from the AGI or ASI that could turn things ugly.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Meanwhile…things haven’t looked so good for Starbucks in China recently, and not just because its baristas can’t spell names in Chinese characters, either.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • That’s the domain of humans: the executive who senses when to pivot, the founder who intuits product-market fit before the metrics appear, the storyteller who moves a room, the leader who earns trust in a single conversation.
    Dror Berman, Fortune, 27 June 2025
  • So how exactly did the former domain of couples’ massages and cucumber water become the next frontier in medicine?
    Kelsey Eisen, Robb Report, 26 June 2025

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“Long suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/long%20suit. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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