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  • noun Plural form of purveyor.

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Examples

  • President Clinton tied that devastating bombing to what he called the purveyors of hate on the airwaves, and Rush Limbaugh was his chief target.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias Noel Sheppard 2010

  • President Clinton tied that devastating bombing to what he called the purveyors of hate on the airwaves, and Rush Limbaugh was his chief target.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias Noel Sheppard 2010

  • In addition, the rising interest in gold means some coin purveyors are aggressively hyping -- and possibly overstating -- the benefits of buying gold and silver the old-fashioned way.

    Precious-Coin Market 2008

  • You will have to ask the airlines and coffin purveyors about shipping a body back to the US for burial ... we did not consider that option as it was not my mother's wish to be buried.

    Living in Mexico is cheap, but dying isn't. Some Questions. 2005

  • Two were by Diptyque, best known as purveyors of house scents and candles here in the states.

    You gotta have friends, part 3 Marina Geigert 2008

  • Two were by Diptyque, best known as purveyors of house scents and candles here in the states.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • Ironically, the advertising business, known as purveyors of carefully worded hedges and verbal fudges -- "nothing is more effective," (translation: it works like everything else) or "now with reduced fat," (translation: less fat than our high fat version) - that same business on occasion has put the truth to work very effectively.

    James Dale: Honesty: The Most Powerful Weapon In Business 2008

  • Then I called the purveyors and paid them my liabilities — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hassan al-Ziyadi: I called the purveyors and paid them my liabilities and spent freely and amply, saying to myself, ‘By the time he returns, Allah will have relieved me with one or other of the bounties He hath by Him.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hassan al-Ziyadi: "I called the purveyors and paid them my liabilities and spent freely and amply, saying to myself, 'By the time he returns, Allah will have relieved me with one or other of the bounties He hath by Him.'

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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