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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

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

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

He dickers in animals a little; trains 'em and has 'em doing things right away.

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

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

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

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

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

That opened the process to almost infinite legal dickering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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

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 we first meet him, he’s on the phone, dickering over the details of his recent purchase of the aforementioned plane, in which he plans to fly with his much younger, British fiancée to London.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015

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