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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

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

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

After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.

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

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

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

For a time the network dickered with Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, producers of The Cosby Show and Roseanne, but negotiations fell through.

From Time Magazine Archive

Purdy thought if he was a hold-up, he'd have a cache somewheres, so he dickered with him, agreein' to pass him the gun if he'd tell where his cache was.

From Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

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

The frenzy of last-minute dickering over the new law, SHB 1240, is a sign of its import.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

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