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Recent Examples of costermonger
Croft was said to have taken his fashion inspiration from costermongers, who were roving traders selling fruit, vegetables, fish and produce on the streets of east London, a working-class area that developed its own distinct accent and vocabulary riddled with rhyming slang, known as Cockney.
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Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for costermonger
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The bitcoin price has soared toward its all-time high of $112,000 per bitcoin, with traders betting a looming Federal Reserve flip will turbo-charge the crypto market.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Crude oil traders appear cautiously optimistic, though.—
Jim Sergent,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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In the Sahara, a smuggler, a paleoanthropologist, and a man on a rescue mission cross paths.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
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There’s also rumored to be a tunnel in Toot’s basement that smugglers used during Prohibition to get resupplies from the waterfront.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
20 June 2025
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However, when a bootlegger is seen as simply trying to ride others’ success in a self-serving manner, community support quickly wanes, and job opportunities for the bootlegger can even dry out.—
London School of Economics,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Or Telfar’s reimagining of Canal Street bootleggers as craftspeople, just as important as their Italian counterparts.—
Jeremy O. Harris,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2025
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McNeil’s movie focuses on Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope pusher made famous in Ridley Scott’s 2007 druggy saga American Gangster, which was based on a New York magazine article by Mark Jacobson.—
Steve Bloom,
HollywoodReporter,
24 June 2025
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Gently push the cuticle back, then lift the cuticle off the nail plate with the cuticle pusher.—
Lorena Meouchi,
Vogue,
26 May 2025
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The new offering is designed to plug directly into Fiserv's sprawling global network, which already processes 90 billion transactions a year across 10,000 financial institutions and 6 million merchant locations.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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The capture of this first whaler on June 22 inaugurated the Shenandoah’s most spectacular run, unlike any the raider had enjoyed during its eight months seeking out and destroying Union merchant vessels.—
Francine Uenuma,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
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Plant it in full sun and near a natural wind barrier, such as a fence, building, or larger plantings, to keep the plants from bending over.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 June 2025
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The quiet horror is that even 20 years later, the fence has not disappeared.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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In the 1980s, as part of the War on Drugs—which focused in wildly disproportionate fashion on arresting Black drug users and sellers—Congress expanded opportunities for the military to provide equipment, training, and other assistance to police departments.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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Job Layoffs Toy seller Hasbro HAS.O has cut 3% of its global workforce in its latest cost-cutting effort amid higher U.S. tariffs on toys from China.—
Ananya Mariam Rajesh,
USA Today,
19 June 2025
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Billed as a game-changer for AI integration, MCP is gaining traction among vendors including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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That includes obstacle courses, games, face painting, family fitness demos and classes, water play, and local vendors.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
19 June 2025
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“Costermonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costermonger. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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