as in dealing
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase
they dickered over the price of the car for a few minutes
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Verb
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Philadelphia Phillies starter Aaron Nola was dealing through four innings.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2025 -
Tight end Dae’Quan Wright added 9 receptions for 99 yards and 2 touchdowns as Ole Miss tied its highest point total ever against an SEC opponent while dealing Arkansas one of the most painful home losses of the Coach Sam Pittman era.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As the exclusive bargaining representative of NBA players, the NBPA licenses agents and thereby gives them the legal right to represent players in contract negotiations.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The first return to the bargaining table since the actors’ 2023 strike will begin some time next year ahead of the current SAG-AFTRA deal’s June 30, 2026 expiration date.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
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Traditional approaches focus on financial engineering such as negotiating discounts for long-term commitments, or on observability tools that track who is running what.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Teamsters announced on Facebook late Friday that their negotiating team has a tentative agreement for members to vote on, ending the strike and allowing next weekend’s Farm Aid concert to continue as planned at the U’s Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The president has also worked out agreements for other countries, including Indonesia, to step up their agriculture imports amid negotiations.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
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The forward has expressed disinterest in being used as a scapegoat for Golden State, which is why the negotiations have not made any progress given both parties are reluctant to blink first.—
Valentina Martinez,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Whether gazing from Gellért Hill or haggling for paprika in the Great Market Hall—the city reveals itself in fragments—intimate, contradictory, and impossible to forget.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But Decker left no trace of his existence, such as credit card transactions or cell phone activity, after his daughters were killed.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
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For years, Apple required that all in-app purchases be processed through its App Store and skimmed 30 percent off each transaction.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Amazon’s home department is having an end-of-season sale with bargain deals on outdoor furniture and accessories.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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Democratic government that followed largely left that bargain intact, choosing stability over justice.—
Julia Vargas Jones,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Dickering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dickering. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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