as in peddled
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 hawked
Flocks of tourists maneuvered around lumbering delivery trucks, hawked to by distributors of seemingly unlicensed 2026 Knicks championship gear.
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Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
18 June 2026
Amid a dense thicket of timber-and-metal stalls where secondhand retailers ordinarily hawked their wares, a runner of red-and-green astroturf cut a path toward a stage draped in the tricolor of the Ghanaian flag.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
8 June 2026
The design, much like an earlier iteration hawked by Halmar’s parent company, involves purchasing the Infosys Theater from Madison Square Garden in order to build a spacious entrance on Eighth Avenue, across from Moynihan Train Hall.
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Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2026
To this day, counterfeit DVDs are still being hawked on eBay.
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Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
Exhibitors hawked unmanned aerial vehicles and systems to manage them; a few booths further down, other companies sold systems to shoot those same drones down.
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Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
California businessman Bob Prewitt commissioned Muffler Men from sculptor Bill Swan and hawked them to auto shops across the country from 1962 to 1973.
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Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
25 Mar. 2026
In other cases highlighted by TODAY, AI impersonators hawked treatments that were scientifically impossible.
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John Whyte,
STAT,
17 Feb. 2026
The French queen’s jewels and furniture command record-breaking prices at auction; her porcelain and palace fabrics are reproduced and hawked by homeware brands; and her likeness is used on everything from expensive candles to throw blankets.
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Dana Thomas,
Bloomberg,
31 Dec. 2025
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
18 June 2026
Amid a dense thicket of timber-and-metal stalls where secondhand retailers ordinarily hawked their wares, a runner of red-and-green astroturf cut a path toward a stage draped in the tricolor of the Ghanaian flag.
—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
8 June 2026
The design, much like an earlier iteration hawked by Halmar’s parent company, involves purchasing the Infosys Theater from Madison Square Garden in order to build a spacious entrance on Eighth Avenue, across from Moynihan Train Hall.
—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2026
To this day, counterfeit DVDs are still being hawked on eBay.
—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
Exhibitors hawked unmanned aerial vehicles and systems to manage them; a few booths further down, other companies sold systems to shoot those same drones down.
—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
California businessman Bob Prewitt commissioned Muffler Men from sculptor Bill Swan and hawked them to auto shops across the country from 1962 to 1973.
—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
25 Mar. 2026
In other cases highlighted by TODAY, AI impersonators hawked treatments that were scientifically impossible.
—
John Whyte,
STAT,
17 Feb. 2026
The French queen’s jewels and furniture command record-breaking prices at auction; her porcelain and palace fabrics are reproduced and hawked by homeware brands; and her likeness is used on everything from expensive candles to throw blankets.
—
Dana Thomas,
Bloomberg,
31 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawked
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Threading through all their stories is a wild bird – stolen from the forest, peddled in markets, caged in a home – whose restlessness becomes an emblem of every character’s longing to be free.
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But stereotypes peddled on the right often suggest that their opponents are weak victims of life and circumstances.
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The emergency proclamation was declared by Supervisor Hilda Solis, who said that thousands of air purifiers and masks have been distributed to residents impacted by fire and smoke.
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Sixty percent of total payouts went to Reels, with the remaining 40 percent distributed across Stories, photos, and text posts.
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“Hawked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawked. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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