hawker

as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors street corner hawkers selling everything from fake designer purses to original works of art

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Recent Examples of hawker Unregistered hawker and peddler, ordinance violation. Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025 The street hawkers have yet to set up shop. Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025 Singapore thrives in contrast—where tropical rainforest meets a gleaming skyline, and sizzling hawker stalls hum beneath soaring glass domes. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 In wealthy Medellin, hawkers have transformed onetime local drug lord Pablo Escobar into a mascot for touristic trinkets. Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hawker
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Noun
  • In that case, the decline is largely because vendors are not sending it enough merchandise given recent delays in getting payment from the debt-laden company.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • On the hardware side over 10+ million devices have been built around a recovery phrase by default, entrenching a market expectation in which seed phrases are the go-to recovery method, even as some vendors add alternatives.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The MossFon Project highlights how, as the global push for corporate transparency continues, buyers and sellers of financial secrecy look for alternate jurisdictions to carry on their activities.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The seller will load the grating for transport, but won't secure the load.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Operating at the extreme fringes is also an effective strategy for maximizing exposure in the algorithm, which explains why popular influencers such as the Nelk Boys and Jake Paul started their YouTube careers as prank peddlers, before leaning into more overtly political content.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Elsewhere in Episode 5: Gut Milk peddler Ursula casually mentions that building staff can’t rely on tips anymore.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trick or treaters with creative costumes and merchants with generous candy giveaways stretched from 5th Street to Ramona Street during the event, organized by the Ramona Chamber of Commerce.
    Stephanie Ogilvie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Other e-commerce players, like Etsy and Shopify merchants Glossier, Spanx and Vuori are also on board with the initiative.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.
    Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Hawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawker. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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