as in peddling
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 hawking
The Wolfpack used an up-tempo offense and ball-hawking defense to control the tempo against the Raptors.
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Butch Hart, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
And, online, the startups' advertisements hawking their wares often focus on hospitals and their periodic jousts with insurers.
—Darius Tahir, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
That's at least how many Super Bowl ads this year were bought either by AI companies, companies hawking AI products, or companies touting that the ads themselves were created with AI.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Three Sheep has previously faced a slew of social media controversies, including a $10 million fine for hawking mooncakes that came from mainland China but were falsely promoted as luxury Hong Kong products.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
But Fitzgerald was the team leader in interceptions (six), showing off his ball-hawking abilities.
—Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
Even street vendors hawking sweets and trinkets follow the dollar’s rise and fall.
—Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
With a career spanning more than 40 years, Red Hot Chili Peppers have become one of the highest-selling bands in history, hawking more than 120 million records worldwide.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
This time, companies aren’t pushing cigarettes or loose-leaf chew; instead, the same corporations that spent billions to keep people hooked on smokes and dip are hawking pouches targeted at the sport’s primarily male demographic.
—Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 28 Jan. 2026
Butch Hart, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
And, online, the startups' advertisements hawking their wares often focus on hospitals and their periodic jousts with insurers.
—Darius Tahir, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
That's at least how many Super Bowl ads this year were bought either by AI companies, companies hawking AI products, or companies touting that the ads themselves were created with AI.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Three Sheep has previously faced a slew of social media controversies, including a $10 million fine for hawking mooncakes that came from mainland China but were falsely promoted as luxury Hong Kong products.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
But Fitzgerald was the team leader in interceptions (six), showing off his ball-hawking abilities.
—Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
Even street vendors hawking sweets and trinkets follow the dollar’s rise and fall.
—Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
With a career spanning more than 40 years, Red Hot Chili Peppers have become one of the highest-selling bands in history, hawking more than 120 million records worldwide.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
This time, companies aren’t pushing cigarettes or loose-leaf chew; instead, the same corporations that spent billions to keep people hooked on smokes and dip are hawking pouches targeted at the sport’s primarily male demographic.
—Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawking
peddling
Verb
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Republicans peddling election conspiracy theories have refused to participate in that.—
Jack Fink,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Those idiots are the primary reason Trump is president, while Kamala Harris, who condemns the military success like most of her fellow Democratic politicos, can’t even get traction in peddling her sour-grapes-loser book.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Hawking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawking. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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