as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors
hucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the performers
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Recent Examples of huckster
As details from the report emerged Wednesday, cryptocurrency insiders lauded it as a crucial step in legitimizing digital asset markets by providing legal and regulatory clarity to an industry that has struggled to emerge from its reputation as a haven for criminals and hucksters.
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Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 30 July 2025
Her book incorporates memoir, science writing, and cultural critique, offering a technical breakdown of the effects of Johnston’s time in the gym, as well as condemnations of diet culture’s scams and hucksters.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 3 July 2025
The Player’s Guide details how to build a character, whether its just a common cowpoke or one of the more unusual options like a huckster or blessed.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
San Pedro, locals say, is fertile ground for hucksters.
—David Segal, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Noun
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The consultant should be independent and free of financial ties to vendors or campus security providers to ensure unbiased findings.—
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To review or object to instances where our partners assert a legitimate interest in utilizing your data, please visit our vendors page.—
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Online sellers were siphoning customers and big name brands had begun to sell goods from their own stores.—
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One/Size is currently offering 13 products at Boots, including top seller On ‘Til Dawn Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray and various primers formulated for a variety of skin tones and types.—
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Among election delusion peddlers, Oltmann has distinguished himself by calling for violence and defaming innocent people.—
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But Mexico is the primary − and virtually only − mass producer and exporter of fentanyl, with Chinese peddlers sending small amounts by mail, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and U.S. counternarcotics organizations.—
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What started as labor strikes and merchant protests over currency collapse and inflation has expanded into widespread street demonstrations and student protests.—
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Unrest at the Tehran bazaar is particularly unsettling for officials because the shuttering of shops at the ancient marketplace and protests from the merchant class were key elements that led to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1979.—
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Tourists seeking to visit the Statue of Liberty were defrauded daily by unscrupulous ticket-hawkers pitching water tours departing miles away that charge high prices and can’t land on Liberty Island.—
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For a more low-key flavor, Chua recommended heading to a hawker center.—
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A day after booking Soto and Baz, investigators arrested Gutierrez, who allegedly led the distribution of the cocaine to dealers and users, at his Oxnard home.—
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Peruse vintage treasures from dozens of dealers at Middleburg Antique Gallery.—
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“Huckster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/huckster. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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