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one who urges or attempts to cause a war
- the hawks were claiming that without war there could be no peace
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hawk
verbSynonyms of hawk (Entry 2 of 2)
to sell from place to place usually in small quantities
- a determined bootstrapper who went from hawking newspapers on the street corner to running a media empire
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- deal (in),
- distribute,
- high-pressure,
- hustle,
- market,
- merchandise
- (also merchandize),
- trade (in),
- vend
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“Hawk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawk. Accessed 24 Sep. 2021.
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