hucksters

plural of huckster
as in vendors
one who sells things outdoors hucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the performers

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Recent Examples of hucksters The fact that none of that advice could ever help someone find real intimacy or success isn’t a problem for the manosphere hucksters, because those achievements would be bad for the business model. Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 28 July 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 While the real-life Warrens undoubtedly were hucksters and snake-oil salesmen, the fictional ones are an intensely likable couple whose love for each other is far firmer than the veil between the living and the dead. Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025 The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren. Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
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Noun
  • With local vendors selling everything from clothing, thrift and vintage pieces, beauty products, candles, jewelry, fragrances and more, this Indie Market promotes a rotating list of merchants.
    Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, use the American Astronomical Society Solar Eclipse Task Force’s list of vendors for safe solar viewers, particularly when buying online.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Then in December that year, the agency issued a general recall for all tabletop fire pit products, citing two deaths and at least 60 injuries since 2019 and urging consumers to stop using them and sellers to stop selling them.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Unsurprisingly, following the huge moves of Morgan Rogers and Elliot Anderson, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are the biggest net sellers to date, and divisional gross sales of £972million are a little ahead of a year ago.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Aug. 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
  • This was once one of the principal streets used by Tallinn’s wealthy merchants and remains lined with former guild buildings and elaborate historic facades.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • With local vendors selling everything from clothing, thrift and vintage pieces, beauty products, candles, jewelry, fragrances and more, this Indie Market promotes a rotating list of merchants.
    Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The peanut hawkers at sports venues over a century ago wouldn’t recognize the diversity of food—or seating types—in today’s modern stadium.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 July 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
Noun
  • From e-commerce platforms that allow dealers to order parts around the clock to digital customer experiences that keep equipment operating during critical planting and harvest windows, technology has become a competitive differentiator.
    Peter High, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • However, dealers focus on selling coins and bars directly to investors, who then decide where and how to store the metals.
    Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 31 July 2026

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