peddle
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After the overwhelming success of “Float On” and “Good News…,” Modest Mouse continued to peddle an unlikely balance of DIY quirk with commercial polish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Embiid urged Sixers season ticket holders not to peddle their seats to flush New Yorkers, as in playoffs past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Researchers have also warned that X's model -- allowing premium accounts to earn payouts based on engagement -- has turbocharged the financial incentive to peddle false or sensational content.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
"We are a normal family, but we do have to peddle a lot harder than everyone else to achieve the same," said Danni.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
Why should a man deliberately plunge outside of history and peddle an obscenity, my mind went on abstractedly.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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“Club Kid” is a blast: a spicy, surprising and irreverent comedy that rarely peddles the audience anything artificially sweet.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
"This is a guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does."
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
Another witness said she saw Joshua "going at a fair rate" stood up on his peddles beginning to cross the carriageway and that it did not look like he was going to stop.
From BBC ● May 2, 2023
Down in the city, a merchant peddles his wares, the singsong strains of his voice reaching even here.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Evergrande Group was once the face of Chinese real estate, surfing a decades-long property boom as it peddled home-ownership dreams.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Nor does it offer the prescriptive guidance found in the ever-swelling genre of self-help books peddled by former special operators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
And though she uncovers long-held truths and confronts those who peddled her mother’s secrets, “My Mom Jayne” is most moving when Hargitay challenges her lifelong trepidation about getting to know her mother better.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
A network of brokers — many of them in the Korean community — gobbled up several prime slots and then peddled them on social media, especially on the Korean app KakaoTalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
The poor chap peddled it around Europe, passing out pamphlets at conventions.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Agents sifted through hundreds of thousands of records seized during Kao’s arrest and found that many were consistent with his account of widespread influence peddling.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The little L.A. shop was a destination for Hello Kitty fans for decades when it decided to dive into a massive new wave of e-commerce — peddling its products live on TikTok.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Authorities, however, see such leaks as proof that “moles” were peddling secrets for profit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"Instead, we've left a void, one which has been filled with nefarious online actors peddling their own narratives surrounding what a successful manhood looks like."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Not long afterward, the onetime insurance salesman opened a business in downtown Fairfax, peddling bona fide policies.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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