as in militants
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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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 hawks
Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
Cooper’s hawks are protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as well as state law, which protects all raptors.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Raptors, including Cooper’s hawks, are protected under California law.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
Outside, deer, hawks, and even whales offshore remind you how wild this stretch of coast still is.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 24 Feb. 2026
At least in the world of counterfactuals, there is an alternative reality in which a Democratic President, during the nineteen-nineties or the two-thousands, defied the deficit hawks and also adopted a more skeptical approach to globalization.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
By mid-February, raptors, including hawks and eagles, begin migrating north.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
The tortoises reintroduced to Floreana will share their territory with a diverse population of nearly 200 people alongside flamingos, iguanas, penguins, sea gulls and hawks.
—ABC News, 20 Feb. 2026
But toads and frogs are also prey animals for owls, hawks, skunks, opossums, and raccoons.
—Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 6 Feb. 2026
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
Bannon has used the term globalists to refer to Silicon Valley elites, media executives, neoconservative foreign-policy hawks, proponents of lightly regulated global markets, and Jared Kushner.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
Cooper’s hawks are protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as well as state law, which protects all raptors.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Raptors, including Cooper’s hawks, are protected under California law.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
Outside, deer, hawks, and even whales offshore remind you how wild this stretch of coast still is.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 24 Feb. 2026
At least in the world of counterfactuals, there is an alternative reality in which a Democratic President, during the nineteen-nineties or the two-thousands, defied the deficit hawks and also adopted a more skeptical approach to globalization.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
By mid-February, raptors, including hawks and eagles, begin migrating north.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
The tortoises reintroduced to Floreana will share their territory with a diverse population of nearly 200 people alongside flamingos, iguanas, penguins, sea gulls and hawks.
—ABC News, 20 Feb. 2026
But toads and frogs are also prey animals for owls, hawks, skunks, opossums, and raccoons.
—Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
Her Sharon Coombs is a high-end insurance broker who hawks pricey policies to wealthy clients, sugaring her pitch with a hint of seduction.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawks
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In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah militants backed by Iran have been firing rockets at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s war in Iran.—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
11 Mar. 2026
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The crisis has worsened recently to include other militants from the neighboring Sahel region, including the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, which claimed its first attack on Nigerian soil last year.—
Dyepkazah Shibayan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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The brand markets more than 20,000 drink combinations, including coffee drinks, shakes, teas, smoothies, infused sparkling waters and energy drinks.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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Alterra Mountain Company, Vail Resorts’ rival which markets Ikon Passes, generally announces its early-bird prices a couple of days after Vail.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
3 Mar. 2026
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Mayor Mamdani is free from the pressures of lobbyists and warmongers who try to cultivate and flip rising stars.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2026
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People of peace have no PR machine and no media budget - so media narratives are skewed toward warmongers.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Nov. 2025
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Putting healthcare at the top of his affordability list, Coghill, 46, runs a business which imports and distributes timber products.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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Some of the bikes are used in Metro’s Adopt A Bike Grant Program, which distributes them to those in need.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Arnett was a tough and fearless New Zealander who wrote about the war from the battlefield with a realism that often led to the dismay and anger of President Johnson and the war hawks surrounding him.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
25 Dec. 2025
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“Hawks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawks. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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