as in clerk
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
a furniture salesman followed us around the whole time we looked for a new couch
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Recent Examples of salesman
Or maybe there’s a hint of truth, and not all car salesmen are like that.
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Summer Ballentine, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
Richard, then 51, was a retired clothing salesman, while Evelyn, then 49, was a former chemical company employee.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
If Altman is the AI boom’s great salesman and Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind and a Nobel laureate, its scientist, then Amodei is the closest the industry has to a philosopher.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
Adam Barnett, a polished Miami penny-stock salesman with a penchant for beautiful women and expensive sneakers, spent weeks on trial accused of paying a fellow inmate to arrange the murder of a key witness and his ex-defense lawyer.
—Sydney Pereira, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
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Summer Ballentine, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
Richard, then 51, was a retired clothing salesman, while Evelyn, then 49, was a former chemical company employee.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
If Altman is the AI boom’s great salesman and Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind and a Nobel laureate, its scientist, then Amodei is the closest the industry has to a philosopher.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
Adam Barnett, a polished Miami penny-stock salesman with a penchant for beautiful women and expensive sneakers, spent weeks on trial accused of paying a fellow inmate to arrange the murder of a key witness and his ex-defense lawyer.
—Sydney Pereira, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salesman
Noun
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Rather than placing orders with a counter clerk, Luckin customers select and pay for drinks directly through an app.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
8 Feb. 2026
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Less-skilled workers, such as truck drivers and postal clerks, have actually lost ground in terms of income.—
Mark Robert Rank,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Dismissing optimism from the head of a league is easy; after all, part of the job description is being a salesperson for the sport.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Salesman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salesman. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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