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
A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
National security hawks in both parties are watching the Pentagon for daily dust-ups that shake America’s image and remake its top ranks.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Yolanda Evans, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
The Expo was the twenty-first-century answer to the old World’s Fairs, in which countries would hawk their wares in national pavilions.
—Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Neither liberals nor hawks have viable solutions to this problem.
—A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
National security hawks in both parties are watching the Pentagon for daily dust-ups that shake America’s image and remake its top ranks.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
The thousands of visitors who attend these festivals add an economic boost to local tourism as well as allowing local asparagus farmers to hawk their stalks and promote their farms.
—Yolanda Evans, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
The Expo was the twenty-first-century answer to the old World’s Fairs, in which countries would hawk their wares in national pavilions.
—Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawk
Verb
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But hazy, unenforceable definitions have allowed pornography companies to infect our society, peddle smut to children, and do business across state lines unimpeded.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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She’s accused of peddling drugs from the 200 block of North 9th Street in Newark and facing charges including first-degree racketeering, conspiracy, weapons offenses, assaults and other drug offenses, officials said.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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The company wholesales its collection to Neiman Marcus, Goop and specialty stores.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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From headquarters in the city’s most upscale mixed-use building, The Main Las Olas, BBX Capital operates subsidiaries ranging from real estate development to logistics to retail confections to door manufacturing and wholesaling.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 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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Predictably, Washington's warmongers are apoplectic.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
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Election 2024 live updates:Trump attacks Cheney and calls her a 'war hawk' Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA TODAY,
1 Nov. 2024
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But critics of Washington’s hyper-aggressive foreign policy need to understand that the flight of many of the worst war hawks from the Republican Party does not mean the GOP has returned to its non-interventionist roots.—
Connor Okeeffe,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2024
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“Hawk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawk. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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