as in specialty
something for which a person shows a special talent
languages are definitely the diplomat's strong suit
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Recent Examples of strong suit
Lastly, don’t expect marathon sessions since battery life isn’t its strong suit.
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Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
Providing an array of vehicles to consumers has been their strong suit, but providing reliability, dependability and usability is second to none.
—Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025
There’s plenty of evidence to support that — but then again, evidence and the facts have never been their strong suit.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025
Make bold negotiations your strong suit with Mercury back in Aries.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
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Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
Providing an array of vehicles to consumers has been their strong suit, but providing reliability, dependability and usability is second to none.
—Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025
There’s plenty of evidence to support that — but then again, evidence and the facts have never been their strong suit.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025
Make bold negotiations your strong suit with Mercury back in Aries.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for strong suit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strong suit
Noun
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Advance Auto Parts — The specialty retail stock dropped close to 9% after being downgraded to sell from neutral at Goldman Sachs.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
24 June 2025
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By then, hundreds of geriatricians are expected to retire or leave the specialty, reducing their number to fewer than 7,600, with relatively few young doctors joining the field.—
Jariel Arvin,
Miami Herald,
21 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Miranda is so full of possibility and adventure and what’s going to come next, and Ada is trying so hard to be that way and to fill the deep well of her sadness and her loneliness and her bereavement with things like the Temperance movement.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
23 June 2025
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The other company members all said more or less the same thing: everyone respected Matthew’s great passion for the play, for the character, but why should the company put itself in legal jeopardy for what was, essentially, one man’s fancy?—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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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“Strong suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strong%20suit. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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