as in vendors
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 hucksters
The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.
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Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
While the real-life Warrens undoubtedly were hucksters and snake-oil salesmen, the fictional ones are an intensely likable couple whose love for each other is far firmer than the veil between the living and the dead.
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Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.
—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
While the real-life Warrens undoubtedly were hucksters and snake-oil salesmen, the fictional ones are an intensely likable couple whose love for each other is far firmer than the veil between the living and the dead.
—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hucksters
Noun
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That is the exact failure the gateway vendors position against, and also the risk that could shrink their own market.
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The celebration includes carnival rides, live music, food vendors and a fireworks show honoring the nation's 250th anniversary.
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It is constrained by how well sellers execute in high-stakes conversations such as discovery, stakeholder alignment, value communication, pricing and negotiation.
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And the gap in prices between the major brands and unbranded sellers is even wider when there’s less competition.
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But as the January date approached, Atkin and Jammi’s research showed that intermediaries were still sending money to prominent peddlers of election conspiracies like Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson.
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Connecticut gets a bad reputation This leads to the 1833 story of the unscrupulous Connecticut peddlers.
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Libra was always only meant to be an enabler for wallets, merchants and platforms.
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Dutch merchants, families and investors moved through a wide Atlantic network that connected Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
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There will be huge crowds in the Battery and Downtown Thursday for the Knicks parade and afterwards some will be interested in going to Liberty and Ellis, making easy prey for the hawkers.
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Speaking to the outlet, fellow officer Muhammad Shamsul Alam Sarkar said that most of those who died were hawkers of plastic items and worked in the town of Chowmuhani.
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The workflow also has extensibility to a variety of other agentic use cases, including the company’s Chat Concierge tool which enhances the customer experience for car buyers and dealers.
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Bonta proposed statewide restrictions on games using third-party proposition players, also known as player-dealers, as well as blackjack and other banked games, in which players wager against the house.
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“Hucksters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hucksters. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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