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
They had a device that made a loud clicking sound up there in the balcony, and when that noisy dicker sounded, the contestant was supposed to stop singing in midpassage and walk off the stage.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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
Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
I gathered that the heft of his spare change had come from dickers in stocks and bonds.
From The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016
The examination of 'Legger Kerper's records disclosed the names of many famed Philadelphians, presumably bigwigs who had dickered with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dag Hammarskjold dickered endlessly with the Congo's erratic politicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Wakefield Cadman considered, George Gershwin dickered, Irving Berlin contracted last week to write musical themes for the new sound-pictures, the audible cinema.
From Time Magazine Archive
I then dickered a while with him, and after satisfying myself that I could buy it for no less than his price, purchased it; and have always considered it a good investment.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow
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
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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