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
The Mercantile Trust Co. and the National Bank of Commerce, both in St. Louis, made dickers last week, preliminary to a consolidation.
From Time Magazine Archive
After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frank dickers with him in his counting-room, Tommy chases him in the play-ground, Mrs. Asmodeus makes him a fashionable call, and—God help us all!—we sometimes find him sitting domiciliated at our hearthstones.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016
Last summer the pavilions at the Venice Biennale and the attics of Germany's Dokumenta III dickered and chattered with electrically driven, and even electronically musical, kinetic op.
From Time Magazine Archive
Diem agreed to all this as he dickered by telephone with the rebel leaders outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S., which had 40 negotiators working in relays, dickered for lower duties abroad on U.S. tobacco, foodstuffs and autos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that I've ever taken a dollar for my personal pocket, for I haven't; but I've bought and sold and dickered and schemed with the best of 'em, and the worst of 'em.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
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
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
The end result of the pay commission has been time and money wasted in court dickering over details that should have been hashed out publicly on the floor of the state Legislature.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2019
The dickering played out for hours Wednesday, even after top congressional leaders left a morning meeting on a snowy Capitol Hill declaring that a deal was at hand.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
One light from the ceiling was still hanging down by a wire, dickering and swinging back and forth, and every once in a while I could see stuff inside.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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