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noun

ˈhȯk How to pronounce hawk (audio)
Definition of hawknext
as in militant
one who urges or attempts to cause a war the hawks were claiming that without war there could be no peace

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hawk

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verb

as in to peddle
to sell from place to place usually in small quantities a determined bootstrapper who went from hawking newspapers on the street corner to running a media empire

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Recent Examples of hawk
Noun
Jared Bernstein, who served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Biden administration, has similarly sounded more like a debt hawk than a dove. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026 At the same time, Sobyanin, who is widely seen as a pragmatist, has rebuffed calls by Russian hawks for a broad mobilization of conscripts and putting the entire economy on a war footing. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
Hair loss experts hawking lifestyle handbooks for getting your strands back. — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 2 Oct. 2026 Streatfeild’s seamless switch from receiver to quarterback and Hedricks’ sure hands and ball-hawking defense have produced impressive stats and ‘Top 10’ moments on ESPN. — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hawk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawk
  1. militant
  2. peddle
  3. militarist
  4. wholesale
  5. warmonger
  6. distribute
  7. war hawk
  8. merchandise
Noun
  • Israel’s military agency blamed local merchants’ dispute with Hamas militants over truck fees, but Gaza’s truckers union says Israel imposed the restrictions.
    — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Palestinians fled the camp in 2025 as the Israeli military carried out a widespread crackdown against West Bank militants.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of militant
Verb
  • Lula’s coalition filed a legal complaint requesting that the avatar’s profiles be taken down, on the grounds that the anonymous accounts peddled false or distorted information that could mislead voters.
    — Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The protests were widely broadcast on state media, in sharp contrast to Assad’s days, when state television peddled disinformation to discredit them, including claims that the protests were staged from faraway studios in Qatar.
    — Tala Alrajjal, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of peddle
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  • At the same time, the barrage of vitriol unleashed by China castigating Takaichi as a warmongering militarist includes a reprehensible threat by the Chinese consul-general in Osaka about beheading Takaichi.
    — Jeff Kingston, Time, 30 Nov. 2025
Definition of militarist
Verb
  • Colorado took a more lenient course, allowing brewing companies to wholesale their own products directly to licensed retailers.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The response is not to wholesale import consumer-software practices, since consequences in the automotive industry can be hazardous.
    — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of wholesale
Noun
  • The gap between what Russians know to be true about the war and what the Kremlin says about it has grown so wide that even warmongers like Dugin struggle to bridge it.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • Putin, who ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022, casts European powers as warmongers for supporting Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in support, weapons and intelligence.
    — Guy Faulconbridge, USA Today, 10 May 2026
Definition of warmonger
Verb
  • Major Player Last year, BBC Studios teamed with CosmoBlue to distribute channels and launch a new general entertainment network across the Middle East and North Africa regions and Turkey.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • That came after the company distributed about 471 million warrants giving holders of Paramount Skydance’s PSKY Class B shares the option to purchase stock in the new company for $12/share.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of distribute
Noun
  • The latter, however, would upset the uber-nationalists and war hawks who believe that nothing short of Ukraine’s full capitulation is acceptable for the mighty Russian state.
    — Daniel DePetris, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
  • Great Again isolationists and GOP war hawks.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of war hawk
Verb
  • Expect retailers to start merchandising home fragrance by room rather than by scent family, and expect brands to release coordinated multi-room sets.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Previously, the company had been merchandising denim throughout the store alongside other ready-to-wear.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
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