as in to hawk
to sell from place to place usually in small quantities
seldom saw their father, who traveled around the country peddling Bibles
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Recent Examples of peddle
As of now, the Ducks are in excellent shape with the salary cap — $17.3 million available now, and $39.5 million for 2025-26 — but don’t have many useful impending unrestricted free agents to peddle.
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Eric Stephens, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
DeMille, a social media specialist with a background in marketing, has highlighted influencers using the Los Angeles wildfires to peddle detoxes, fear mongering about parasites, and making claims about supplements that sound different than the disclaimers on the product's websites.
—Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
Dunphy gains super strength from a drug peddled by the Power Broker, but winds up addicted to the same substance.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
The outcry of South Africa's government and much of the international media may mislead neutral observers into thinking that Trump was peddling outrageous fabrications.
—Frans Cronje, National Review, 22 Feb. 2025
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Eric Stephens, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
DeMille, a social media specialist with a background in marketing, has highlighted influencers using the Los Angeles wildfires to peddle detoxes, fear mongering about parasites, and making claims about supplements that sound different than the disclaimers on the product's websites.
—Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
Dunphy gains super strength from a drug peddled by the Power Broker, but winds up addicted to the same substance.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
The outcry of South Africa's government and much of the international media may mislead neutral observers into thinking that Trump was peddling outrageous fabrications.
—Frans Cronje, National Review, 22 Feb. 2025
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The California native held a lead for the entire final round on Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational before Russell Henley hawked him down with an incredible chip-in eagle on the par-5 16th hole, erasing a three-shot deficit in the final four holes to win his biggest career title.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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The sites hawk their wares with scientific specificity: microprinting in dots per inch, card thickness in micrometers (polycarbonate stock for that stiff, authentic feel) and various types of laminates.—
Kaja Andric,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Jordy’s job for the last few years hasn’t just been about collecting and distributing money.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2025
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This account is based on interviews with 12 people with knowledge of developments at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the federal agency that oversees all these international broadcasters and distributes money to them.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
10 Mar. 2025
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Keemo Fashion Group Ltd continues to operate in the apparel and garment trading business, focusing on wholesaling to distributors mainly based in China.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
14 Mar. 2025
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Chen stressed that Strahan’s collections will continue to be wholesaled at those retailers as well as others such as Dick’s Sporting Goods and Fanatics, which offer his more casual collections including those created for the Super Bowl as well as his line for the UFL league.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
WWD,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Peddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peddle. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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