hawkers

plural of hawker
as in vendors
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 hawkers While dozens of hawkers normally fill that third -of-a-mile-long stretch, only two stands were open for business a day after the raids. Daniella Silva, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025 Bring your pastry to Marine Parade’s public lawns for a lakeside lunch in view of street performers, snack carts and thrill ride hawkers. New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026 It’s built to resemble utopia but registers as an artificial paradise, the sort designed to sell forever the way hawkers on a convention floor sell timeshares. Jp Mangalindan, Time, 26 Nov. 2025 Across history, hawkers of new communications technologies have expressed a desire to smooth out and speed up human conversation. Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026 Where the Rio Grande meets the sea, the rockets of SpaceX are launched; astronomers gaze skyward, hawkers shill their wares and environmentalists survey the damage. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026 Speaking to the outlet, fellow officer Muhammad Shamsul Alam Sarkar said that most of those who died were hawkers of plastic items and worked in the town of Chowmuhani. Adam England, PEOPLE, 25 May 2026 The patio at Murphy’s grew fuller by the minute and an hour or so later, the Wrigley ball hawkers — a dwindling group of fans who gather along Waveland Avenue to catch home run balls launched well over the left field fence — were starting to take their positions. Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026 There will be huge crowds in the Battery and Downtown Thursday for the Knicks parade and afterwards some will be interested in going to Liberty and Ellis, making easy prey for the hawkers. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
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Noun
  • That is the exact failure the gateway vendors position against, and also the risk that could shrink their own market.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • The celebration includes carnival rides, live music, food vendors and a fireworks show honoring the nation's 250th anniversary.
    Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • It is constrained by how well sellers execute in high-stakes conversations such as discovery, stakeholder alignment, value communication, pricing and negotiation.
    Andy Springer, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • And the gap in prices between the major brands and unbranded sellers is even wider when there’s less competition.
    Jerry McNerney, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • But as the January date approached, Atkin and Jammi’s research showed that intermediaries were still sending money to prominent peddlers of election conspiracies like Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
  • Connecticut gets a bad reputation This leads to the 1833 story of the unscrupulous Connecticut peddlers.
    Ava Berger, NPR, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Libra was always only meant to be an enabler for wallets, merchants and platforms.
    Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Dutch merchants, families and investors moved through a wide Atlantic network that connected Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
    R. Grant Gilmore III, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • 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

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“Hawkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawkers. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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