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
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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
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
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Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 dickered with the Navy, in the summer of 1940 landed a $32,800,000 contract for ten submarines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last summer the pavilions at the Venice Biennale and the attics of Germany's Dokumenta III dickered and chattered with electrically driven, and even electronically musical, kinetic op.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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
I dart a quick glance toward Miss Duncan, who is still dickering with the carriage driver.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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