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
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.
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Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025
The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 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
Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025
The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hucksters
Noun
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More than a quarter allow vendors to enable AI features in SaaS products with minimal review, effectively rubber-stamping third-party AI risk.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Financial Institutions Trade associations and vendors that work with financial institutions that are transfer providers are also interpreting the exemptions and reporting requirements to advise their clients.—
Carrie Brandon Elliot,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Some Etsy sellers have even created stands to display the lamp upright, but on a table.—
Sarah Everett,
The Spruce,
13 Jan. 2026
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Several of the author's other best-sellers are also headed to the screen.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Among election delusion peddlers, Oltmann has distinguished himself by calling for violence and defaming innocent people.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
31 Dec. 2025
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Operating at the extreme fringes is also an effective strategy for maximizing exposure in the algorithm, which explains why popular influencers such as the Nelk Boys and Jake Paul started their YouTube careers as prank peddlers, before leaning into more overtly political content.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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The bazaar was once Iran’s autonomous economic powerhouse—a network of merchants whose financial independence gave them leverage against state power.—
Narges Bajoghli,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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Iran’s regime has been trying to crack down on the protests, which began in late December with shopkeepers and bazaar merchants demonstrating against accelerating inflation and the collapse of the rial.—
Greg Norman-Diamond,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Tourists seeking to visit the Statue of Liberty were defrauded daily by unscrupulous ticket-hawkers pitching water tours departing miles away that charge high prices and can’t land on Liberty Island.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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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
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A day after booking Soto and Baz, investigators arrested Gutierrez, who allegedly led the distribution of the cocaine to dealers and users, at his Oxnard home.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Peruse vintage treasures from dozens of dealers at Middleburg Antique Gallery.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Hucksters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hucksters. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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