as in militant
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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as in to peddle
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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Recent Examples of hawk
Elena Moore, NPR, 1 July 2025
Given the Senate’s revisions, the bill now heads back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson again will face winning over budget hawk skeptics in his party, with few votes to spare.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 July 2025
Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The man had purchased the tape for $20 from a seller hawking the contents of an unpaid storage space belonging to Evans, out of the back of a truck.
—James Sikura, Air Mail, 28 June 2025
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Noun
The Senate agreed to roll back credits for wind and solar — cuts that were included in the House package to help win over fiscal hawks from the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
—Elena Moore, NPR, 1 July 2025
Given the Senate’s revisions, the bill now heads back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson again will face winning over budget hawk skeptics in his party, with few votes to spare.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 July 2025
Verb
So much so that in 1661, Cardinal Girolamo Farnese issued a decree that legally defined mortadella products, with later papal decrees outlining gruesome consequences for those hawking fraudulent salumi.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The man had purchased the tape for $20 from a seller hawking the contents of an unpaid storage space belonging to Evans, out of the back of a truck.
—James Sikura, Air Mail, 28 June 2025
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In July 2025, Owens found herself in hot water when she was sued by French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, for peddling a conspiracy theory that Brigitte was born male.—
Kait Hanson,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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For years, the studio’s marketing mavens have worked to downplay the very pro-American aspect of the comic book hero when peddling the movie franchise internationally.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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Alivia launched online in 2020 and in 2021 started wholesaling its clothing.—
Lisa Lockwood,
WWD,
20 Feb. 2025
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The idea was to create the first ever international drugstore chain operator and drug wholesaling company.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
17 June 2025
Noun
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The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
16 June 2025
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The movie undoubtedly lays the wood on several in Bush’s inner circle — Thandie Newton’s impression of Condoleezza Rice is particularly mean — as W. ponders what happens when a useful idiot falls under the sway of warmongers with bad intel.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2025
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The issue has divided much of Trump’s base, between traditional GOP war hawks and those who claim further military intervention would be antithetical to MAGA values.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
19 June 2025
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The war hawks intend to lobby the federal government for the resources to destroy Mayday once and for all, and Gabriel magnanimously welcomes Joseph to the party.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
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“Hawk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawk. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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