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also pedlar
as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors
the peddler on the street corner selling baseball caps
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Recent Examples of peddler
In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Unregistered hawker and peddler, ordinance violation.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Aware of this injustice, companies are hiring lawyers and influence peddlers to bolster their MAGA credentials and pervert traditional law enforcement.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Unregistered hawker and peddler, ordinance violation.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Aware of this injustice, companies are hiring lawyers and influence peddlers to bolster their MAGA credentials and pervert traditional law enforcement.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peddler
Noun
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Still, the order blocks vendors from selling any new Wi-Fi routers that are manufactured, developed, or designed outside the US in a major way.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Coffee concessions reopened at the end of 2024 — but the ferry’s status as the city’s most scenic spot to crack open a beer has been on hiatus since 2019, when a contract with a then-vendor expired.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In another case, the sellers’ attorney did not file the necessary paperwork on a probate sale; a month later, Yau and his clients were still waiting.—
Lew Sichelman,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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The short-seller set out its allegations on March 17, blasting out a report to journalists and social media that claimed SoFi had not actually sold a $312 million loan package but kept it on the company’s books with a sleight-of-hand financing arrangement.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
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Specifically, Anmuth expects DoorDash to gain market share in Deliveroo's markets, while expanding SevenRooms products across its merchant base.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2026
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Along the east side of 9th Street between J and L streets, metal doors once led to elevators that allowed merchants to store goods underground.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Flannery O’Connor could have written an entire novel on Christian hucksters just from Year One of the second coming of the Trump administration.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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This place is a huckster’s dream.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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The patio at Murphy’s grew fuller by the minute and an hour or so later, the Wrigley ball hawkers — a dwindling group of fans who gather along Waveland Avenue to catch home run balls launched well over the left field fence — were starting to take their positions.—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Where the Rio Grande meets the sea, the rockets of SpaceX are launched; astronomers gaze skyward, hawkers shill their wares and environmentalists survey the damage.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That September, my parents were contacted by a cult of weed and LSD dealers in California with the incredible name the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, who wanted help breaking their hero, Timothy Leary, out of prison.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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It was initially thought to be a curiosity, a firework or a special effect, until Song-dynasty arms dealers started using it to make fire arrows and other military explosives.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Peddler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peddler. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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