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peddle

verb as in sell door to door

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In a 2005 speech, he called the Democrats who accused the administration of manipulating intelligence to justify the war “opportunists” who peddled “cynical and pernicious falsehoods” to gain political advantage.

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“There’s a false and extremely dangerous narrative being peddled,” Wiener said in an August news conference.

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"Whatever falsehoods they push, whatever easy answers they peddle, however willing they are to tear communities and families apart, they are not on the side of working people."

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She said the Lib Dems had to combat "climate myths" about renewable energy driving up prices she said were peddled by Reform UK and the Conservatives.

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As it turns out, many of the links to the alleged “hoax” debunkings — “peddled by the usual suspects” like liberals and the mainstream media, it said — didn’t actually debunk the charges at all.

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