peddle
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After the overwhelming success of “Float On” and “Good News…,” Modest Mouse continued to peddle an unlikely balance of DIY quirk with commercial polish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Embiid urged Sixers season ticket holders not to peddle their seats to flush New Yorkers, as in playoffs past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
A separate analysis by The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation in California this week showed AI chatbots can peddle misinformation too.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
In the Old City, home to a small but vibrant Christian community and several important churches, red baubles hang from some trees, shopkeepers have put up Christmas decorations and street vendors peddle warm chestnuts.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
“You can’t even peddle hot dogs in the streets. Was that man angry. He says you gave him more trouble than any vendor he ever had.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
It’s as if he’s forgotten what Chipotle peddles — Mexican food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
But in the narrative of masculinity that Rogan himself peddles, Johnson’s behavior makes a sick sort of sense.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
Another witness said she saw Joshua "going at a fair rate" stood up on his peddles beginning to cross the carriageway and that it did not look like he was going to stop.
From BBC ● May 2, 2023
Down in the city, a merchant peddles his wares, the singsong strains of his voice reaching even here.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Evergrande Group was once the face of Chinese real estate, surfing a decades-long property boom as it peddled home-ownership dreams.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
For the most part, Strong’s day-by-day chronicle of the war’s ups and downs was based on behind-the-scenes gossip and “extras” peddled by Manhattan newsboys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
A network of brokers — many of them in the Korean community — gobbled up several prime slots and then peddled them on social media, especially on the Korean app KakaoTalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
The farmers' demonstration was best summed up in two images: real tractors being driven by farmers around Parliament Square, and beside them a collection of toy tractors being peddled around by their children.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
I peddled faster, trying to drive out the knowledge that I was disobeying my father.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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Agents sifted through hundreds of thousands of records seized during Kao’s arrest and found that many were consistent with his account of widespread influence peddling.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Ms. Barci de Moraes has denied influence peddling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The little L.A. shop was a destination for Hello Kitty fans for decades when it decided to dive into a massive new wave of e-commerce — peddling its products live on TikTok.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Peinado in April formally charged Gomez with embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
So it wasn’t really insurance they were peddling.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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