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peddler

[ped-ler] / ˈpɛd lər /
NOUN
hawker
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“He is an American manifestation, the peddler at our door,” he says.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

So when a peddler arrives with a rare item and information, the overseer’s interest is piqued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Dr Yang, who previously worked for China's Ministry of State Security, was nicknamed the "democracy peddler", but his writings often avoided direct criticisms of the government.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024

The audience is too fragmented, spread too thin across a fractured media landscape for any catchphrase, any peddler, however inventive, to reach this scale of recognition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

In 1999, he was twenty-two and working as a peddler in lower Manhattan, selling videotapes and socks and gloves from the sidewalk along Fourteenth Street.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

For peddlers of body-care products and other hygiene items, from dish detergent to air freshener, winning in the attention economy can include creating a fear of missing out on “limited edition” entertainment tie-ins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

These are all committed peddlers of nonsense, but none has committed quite so fully, with so little regard for his or her personal reputation, as Lindell.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025

To put it another way, disinformation peddlers need only make a claim that sounds plausible or might even have a small kernel of truth to influence the unwary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

Each new conflict, or election season, provides new opportunities for disinformation peddlers to demonstrate the latest AI advances.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

He saw peddlers and fruit sellers and sidewalks crammed with pushcarts.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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