bargain
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Many Cubans now question whether that bargain still holds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Iran’s top leadership is now weighing the deal to begin reopening the strait, but officials are signaling a tough bargain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
New minor league baseball team in Irvine plans to offer affordable fun and isn’t worried about competing with the nearby bargain friendly Angels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Wall Street keeps insisting the S&P 500 looks like a bargain after July’s selloff, with a couple of popular valuation metrics helping to make that case.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Well, I suppose it could be awful. But so long as what they promise has some value and they are able to give it, then the bargain stands.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Microcap stocks as a group have been outperforming large-cap stocks by a wide margin so far this year, but there are still plenty of bargains to be had.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
This could lead them to drive harder bargains in their dealings with Moscow—or to walk away from deals entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Today's bidding wars are going to be seen as bargains, and they already are," says Rachel Swann, the listing agent for the Duboce Triangle property.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
But a rush to pick up bargains following that selloff fuelled a spike in New York, where the Dow hit a fresh peak and the Nasdaq climbed more than two percent.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
What if bargains were no longer needed to steal mortals away?
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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Slate’s Alexander Sammon paid the lab a visit and learned more than he bargained for.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
It is something to be bargained for, prayed over—and repaid in promises that may or may not be kept.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The series came with less filter but more chaos and more drama than you may have bargained for – with arguably the biggest girl divide the villa has ever seen.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025
But he got much more attention than he bargained for.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
What has Haymitch possibly said to them, what has he bargained with to make them put Peeta’s life above their own?
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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The letter suggests that MLB and the players union must confront this “failure” during collective bargaining negotiations that began in May and likely will continue through the expiration of the current agreement Dec. 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Even the wording of Iran’s present proposal has some room for bargaining.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
In Connecticut, my firm represents former town finance director Mary Williamson, who alleges that after she identified questionable uses of public funds, her union removed her position from the bargaining unit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Last December, full- and part-time workers in the bargaining unit got a 4% increase, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
When the first helicopter landed in the Daribi area, they briefly looked at it and just went back to what they had been doing; the Chimbus would have been bargaining to charter it.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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