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salesman

[seylz-muhn] / ˈseɪlz mən /


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The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dear Willem, I thought, as I stepped back inside and closed the door, he was about as good a salesman of the church as Father was of watches.

From Literature

Mr. Lew knew everything about the pieces, but he wasn’t the most enterprising salesman.

From Literature

“Wait, is this Delivrd?” one salesman said, suddenly aware he was on speakerphone in front of an audience.

From The Wall Street Journal

He is widely seen as a gifted salesman with a knack for jump-starting the sort of viral moments on social media that double as shrewd self-promotion.

From The Wall Street Journal