Thesaurus results for HAWKED

hawked

verb

past tense of hawk

as in peddled

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 hawked Outside their perimeters, vendors hawked noodles and cigarettes from makeshift stalls. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 Buyers and sellers flocked to specialty card shops and shows, where scores of entrepreneurial dealers hawked vintage and modern products. — Bob Woods, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 After debuting his first soymilk maker, Wang personally hawked his fledgling creation in markets and malls. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 18 Aug. 2026 Kids frolicked in the new Nikki Spoelstra Play Forest, one of the segment’s highlights, while a band played and vendors hawked food by South Miami City Hall as advocates and officials spoke at the dedication. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026 None other than Russian President Vladimir Putin hawked his air defense wares a few months before the Soleimani assassination. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Flocks of tourists maneuvered around lumbering delivery trucks, hawked to by distributors of seemingly unlicensed 2026 Knicks championship gear. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 18 June 2026 Amid a dense thicket of timber-and-metal stalls where secondhand retailers ordinarily hawked their wares, a runner of red-and-green astroturf cut a path toward a stage draped in the tricolor of the Ghanaian flag. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026 The design, much like an earlier iteration hawked by Halmar’s parent company, involves purchasing the Infosys Theater from Madison Square Garden in order to build a spacious entrance on Eighth Avenue, across from Moynihan Train Hall. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026

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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

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