peddler

variants also pedlar

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Recent Examples of peddler Aware of this injustice, companies are hiring lawyers and influence peddlers to bolster their MAGA credentials and pervert traditional law enforcement. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025 The cannabis peddlers promise to shake up your world, break down barriers and put a big smile on your face. Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025 The secular world, meanwhile, has often attacked the Church as a peddler of absurd fantasies. Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025 With a 5% uptick in spending, Maryland's influence peddlers are having a good year. Sam Janesch July 7, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for peddler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peddler
Noun
  • On Saturday and Sunday, downtown streets surrounding the convention center will house food and drink vendors, handmade goods sellers and live music in a street food festival accompanying the main festivities.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There will also be food and drink vendors on site to purchase from along with a rooftop bar.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To join the program, merchants can head to OpenAI's website.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Tang, who leads the DoorDash Labs automation and robotics unit, said Dot is a solution to increasingly complex deliveries, and attempts to open the technology to local merchants.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Cushman & Wakefield’s executive vice chairmen, Jeff Chiate and Will Strong; directors Michael Matchett and John Schreck; senior director Phillip Eilers; and CBRE’s executive vice presidents, Joe Cesta, Tyler Carner and Jeremy Ballenger, represented the seller and procured the buyer.
    Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • As reported, Cucinelli on Thursday afternoon firmly rejected short-seller Morpheus Research’s allegations of irregularities in the company’s business activities in Russia.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over the last four decades Yashar, the daughter of a Persian antique carpet dealer, has forged many relationships in the design world.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The crime drama follows a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The wind traders are teased throughout the new trailer in what appear to be large flying apparatus.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • To be sure, this could just be a case of traders booking gains after a sharp move higher in a stock.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Peddler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peddler. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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