barker
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McLuhan was seen as more of a carnival barker than a scholar, and people—clearly—didn’t heed his warnings about technology.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
Lora Bothwell, the owner of a nearby day care, interjected in the style of a carnival barker.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
As such, when many people talk about "struggle meals," especially online, it's often with a kind of carnival barker mentality, touting promises of the bizarre.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2023
It’s a carnival barker promising a werewolf boy, a woman with four legs, fleas that can rotate a Ferris wheel, a pizza bowl without crust.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2022
The barker himself had paused in his calling to emit a nimbus formation of smoke.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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