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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

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

Together they organized the Czech Mafia, a secret band of patriots who spied throughout Austria-Hungary during the War, providing Benes with material which he made the substance of dickers with the Allies.

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

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

He once dickered with Communism's Ho Chi Minh for armed help in ridding Cambodia of the French.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year the Park Service dickered with private owners, agreed to pay $365,000 for low-vaulted Onyx, $285,000 more for Crystal.*

From Time Magazine Archive

He dickered with the Navy, in the summer of 1940 landed a $32,800,000 contract for ten submarines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sence Old Time himself is a-storin' up the stunny years in his bag that can't be dickered with, or deceived.

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm

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

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

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

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