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
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
After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Secretary Knox disclosed a promising advance: the pooling of Army-Navy procurement facilities, so that only one service dickers with each of the major aircraft and engine companies.
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
Dag Hammarskjold dickered endlessly with the Congo's erratic politicians.
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
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
And while chivalry committed suicide over its ladies' gloves, the stout, wooden-headed burghers, with an eye to the facts of life, dickered and bickered in trade.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
But nothing said at this point can be separated from the bluffing and haggling and dickering central to such high-dollar negotiations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
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
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
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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