pitchmen

plural of pitchman

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Noun
  • The profession with the most open job ads was retail salespersons, with 1,616.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • In 2025, a staggering 623,000 people claimed to be home health and personal assistants, making it by far the biggest occupation in the state, far outstripping retail salespersons, nurses or cashiers and waitresses.
    Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
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
  • The people who work during the day did not go home — secretaries, anybody, salesmen — just to be in Frank Sinatra's presence.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • In May, Hendy had gone all the way to Pocatello, Idaho, and back, 649 miles each way, while making a series of stops to scrutinize the route and line up crack salesmen as guides.
    Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
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“Pitchmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitchmen. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.

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