as in supplier
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a person or business that sells or provides something
a purveyor of kitchen supplies a software purveyor
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Recent Examples of purveyor
Even the most cursory tour of local highlights will take you from the 2,000-year-old remains of Emperor Tiberius's cliff-top Villa Jovis to the still-buzzing purveyor of Jackie Kennedy's iconic sandals—Canfora, which anchors the Via Camerelle luxury shopping corridor.
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Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
In this case, that meant everyone from thermal mechanical engineers to security guards at the liquid cooling purveyor for big tech infrastructure.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Syme About Town Dance Nearly fifty now, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has long been, for good or ill, a best-in-class purveyor of trends in contemporary dance.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
At the end of a pizza extravaganza the top pie purveyors have been chosen.
—James Powel, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
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Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
In this case, that meant everyone from thermal mechanical engineers to security guards at the liquid cooling purveyor for big tech infrastructure.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Syme About Town Dance Nearly fifty now, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has long been, for good or ill, a best-in-class purveyor of trends in contemporary dance.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
At the end of a pizza extravaganza the top pie purveyors have been chosen.
—James Powel, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purveyor
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Sustainability is a huge focus here, and executive chef Eliano Crespi visited 30 different British farms to select his suppliers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Apr. 2026
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Nike offered another example of a brand that relies on audits to monitor suppliers’ compliance with its code of conduct, the analysis noted.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Sessions take place wherever a client's life already happens, with active referral partnerships spanning nonprofits, schools, social service agencies, clinics, and insurance providers.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Some of the defendants were also medical care providers, Essayli pointed out, including three nurses, a chiropractor and a psychologist.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Last week, futures traders briefly pushed the probability of a rate increase by the end of 2026 to 52%.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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The spikes in volume didn’t indicate whether the trades were buy or sell orders, but based on how prices moved as they were placed other traders quickly deduced that someone was selling oil futures, a bet on the value of the commodity falling, and buying stock futures, a bet on a market rebound.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Overall, Neon landed the most noms of any film distributor, with 21, while Netflix scored the most TV nominations, with 22.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2026
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But March for Our Lives argues that what the film discusses and how the movie is presented by its distributor are two different stories, and A24 may have missed the mark in starting a bigger conversation.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
3 Apr. 2026
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OpenAI has been retreating from some hefty spending plans, shelving certain ambitious projects and accepting its role as a purchaser of massive amounts of cloud capacity rather than as a builder of mammoth data centers.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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The purchaser of Jack Kerouac‘s original On the Road manuscript, famously typed onto a nearly 120-foot scroll of paper, at Christie’s Jim Irsay auction on Thursday is country artist and Kerouac fanatic Zach Bryan.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
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That's the trifecta every marketer is chasing.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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The projects Known is taking on utilize the marketer’s own archives to show viewers actual history that may not always have direct ties with the company’s core operations.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2026
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Condé Nast Traveler may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Texas retailers will no longer be allowed to sell most smokable hemp products.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Purveyor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purveyor. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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