peddlers

noun

variants also pedlars
plural of peddler
as in vendors
one who sells things outdoors the peddler on the street corner selling baseball caps

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Recent Examples of peddlers 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, 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 Activists say the real death toll may never be known, with users and small-time peddlers gunned down almost daily in mysterious slumland killings blamed on vigilantes and turf wars. — Reuters, NBC news, 13 May 2026 The consequences are visible in the rising numbers of street peddlers in Tehran. — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026 Hanaway characterized the stores as deceptive drug peddlers. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026 The arguments about whether or not the drug peddlers should be banished becomes the central narrative thread. — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026 The brothers gaze upon commonplace sights of crowds, peddlers, and buskers with fascination and wonder. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026 Among election delusion peddlers, Oltmann has distinguished himself by calling for violence and defaming innocent people. — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peddlers
  1. vendors
  2. sellers
  3. merchants
  4. hawkers
  5. hucksters
  6. dealers
Noun
  • That is the exact failure the gateway vendors position against, and also the risk that could shrink their own market.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • The celebration includes carnival rides, live music, food vendors and a fireworks show honoring the nation's 250th anniversary.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 July 2026
Definition of vendors
Noun
  • Traditionally, a 5- to 6-month supply is considered a balanced market between buyers and sellers.
    — Alex Veiga, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • Most sellers include the disclaimer that wrapped plates are not street-legal.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
Definition of sellers
Noun
  • The history of checkout is about merchants leveraging data signals that were once invisible to them.
    — Nandan Sheth, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Colonial merchants were especially upset that the act allowed the East India Company to undercut their tea business.
    — James Doubek, NPR, 3 July 2026
Definition of merchants
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
Definition of hawkers
Noun
  • The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 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
Definition of hucksters
Noun
  • The workflow also has extensibility to a variety of other agentic use cases, including the company’s Chat Concierge tool which enhances the customer experience for car buyers and dealers.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Bonta proposed statewide restrictions on games using third-party proposition players, also known as player-dealers, as well as blackjack and other banked games, in which players wager against the house.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of dealers

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