monger
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Kraft mac and cheese, first sold in 1937 for 19 cents a box, was the creation of Chicago cheese monger James L. Kraft, who got his start selling cheese from a horse-drawn wagon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Mr. Lazar released a raft of documents on the FBI’s tracking of one of its own former special agents, Willard Cleon Skousen, a far-right Mormon leader and conspiracy monger.
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022
Despite his last name and the negative connotation of monger, this intense and angry antihero, played by Michael B. Jordan, captures the sympathy of viewers.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
A third, a seafood monger in his 40s, was infected and later died.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2020
I must hold them tight though, for I feel them sliding away, and in their stead are the Mannings, husband and wife, hanging on the top of Horse- monger Lane Jail.
From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles
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Novel Study: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Chapters 1–7
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