dicker
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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
Reported by Lianne Hart/Houston and Peter Stoler /Boston Britain dickers with China over the future of Hong Kong Even for the vague, elliptical world of international diplomacy, it was a desultory summit.
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
Kassem has prudently allowed the foreign oil company to continue production, thus assuring himself of a continuing income while he dickers for help in getting his own company on its feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Welborn here dickers a little in native animals and has a couple of the slickest, fattest, neatest bear cubs I've seen in years.
From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by George S. Harney
But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016
Sir Stamford Raffles, dickered the island away from the Sultan of Johore's heir.
From Time Magazine Archive
In London the Jewish Agency dickered for release of its leaders in Palestine, in return for a promise to suppress terrorists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rodzinski dickered with Leeds, and last March Florence got busy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The buyer dickered along a little bit more and after a while said, "I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll give you $150 for that tree."
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association
One reason is the endless, costly dickering among middlemen like Envision and UnitedHealth to make sure they get their share of the bucks sloshing around in the system.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
I enjoyed looking, and I enjoyed considering, and I enjoyed dickering, and now I’m gloating a bit over my new old things.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2022
While he’s selling the infrastructure bill as evidence that Democrats can deliver, Biden still will have to contend with ongoing dickering on the other big item on his agenda — the social spending bill.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
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
When the dickering was done, the knight slung his weapons, shield, and saddlebag over his shoulder and asked for directions to the nearest smithy.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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