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And Europeans will think that they have a license to dicker with China, too.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023

The celebrity may dicker over the price, but ultimately reach an agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

Watching Matt Carpenter dicker and eye-roll over balls and strikes like he's Ted Williams.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2012

But we will cease to bargain and dicker over merit aid awards once offered, including requests to match or exceed another institution’s merit aid offer.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2011

“I’m in no mood for a lengthy dicker, Kaerva,” I said shortly.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

As the U.S. dickers over decontamination—not to mention reparations or reconciliation—organizers in Palomares promise openness and honesty, despite all the commercial advantages of keeping quiet.

From Time ● Jan. 16, 2015

And when a top foreign manufacturer comes to the U.S., his U.S. distributor often puts a tail on him to see whether he dickers with a rival distributor for a better deal.

From Time Magazine Archive

After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perkins says in his office as the city council dickers over his recommendation to find somewhere other than city property to plant Forrest.

From Time Magazine Archive

One or two players had not yet arrived, "dickers" being under way for their purchase.

From Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016

And when Carnegie dickered with the late, great J. P. Morgan to sink Carnegie Steel into the new U. S. Steel, it was Lawyer Reed who drew the mortgages which secured the bonds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Diem agreed to all this as he dickered by telephone with the rebel leaders outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a time the network dickered with Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, producers of The Cosby Show and Roseanne, but negotiations fell through.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had long coveted it for my boudoir, and in days before the war had often dickered with him as to price.

From With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard

The frenzy of last-minute dickering over the new law, SHB 1240, is a sign of its import.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

That opened the process to almost infinite legal dickering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Such lawsuits “are taking advantage of a loophole” that a new state law would close if Lansing’s lawmakers support it this fall, after more than a year of dickering, LaMacchia said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2018

He stayed on in Iraq, dickering with various factions for a slice of power, hoping always that he would emerge as a compromise candidate for prime minister.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2015

I dart a quick glance toward Miss Duncan, who is still dickering with the carriage driver.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland