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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
Noun
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But many traders and analysts noted a shift from the market-share battles of the last decade, when US shale was booming.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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But despite the sentiment that all is well in the economy, investors are flocking to the safe-haven asset of gold—usually a sign that traders are battening down the hatches.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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First by shadowing a refugee smuggler and some refugees preparing to trek through the treacherous Darién Gap rainforest.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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The family travelled north from Central America for weeks, crossing rivers by night and riding concealed in smugglers’ trucks.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Groucho Marx stars as the new president of Huxley College, who attempts to sign on two pro players to help beat rival Darwin University but ends up getting a pair of bootleggers instead.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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Kentucky's vast wilderness and mountainous regions served as hideaways for bootleggers, Rein said, while the government used paid informants to sniff them out.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Place sprouts into the feed tube one by one, and use the food pusher to press them into the blade.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The women wore an orange oversize top tied at the bust and paired the top with pedal-pusher pants and matching V-neck tops in the orange shade.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To join the program, merchants can head to OpenAI's website.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
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Tang, who leads the DoorDash Labs automation and robotics unit, said Dot is a solution to increasingly complex deliveries, and attempts to open the technology to local merchants.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Younger testers appreciated the creative putt-and-play system, from bouncing the marble off rocks to spiraling it into fences and bridges.—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Forest Lodge is currently being renovated according to William and Kate’s specifications, with new shrubs being planted around the house and a metal fence with black mesh privacy screens being placed around the front to ensure privacy.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
2 Oct. 2025
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Brands frequently encounter obstacles, including the requirement for notarized test purchases and the treatment of each infringement as a separate case, even when multiple listings from the same seller are involved.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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This imbalance between supply and demand, with sellers outnumbering buyers by more than 500,000, has helped shift many markets in favor of the latter.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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After a photo of Gilbert showing her inside a crate began to spread online, people reported the vendor to local law enforcement, prompting an evaluation by Warren County Animal Control.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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The families were then confronted by the unpaid vendors, sometimes on the day of the event, prosecutors said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Costermonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costermonger. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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