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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

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

The Mercantile Trust Co. and the National Bank of Commerce, both in St. Louis, made dickers last week, preliminary to a consolidation.

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

One or two players had not yet arrived, "dickers" being under way for their purchase.

From Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016

He dickered desperately for a $125 million loan from the U.S., violated the nationalism that he himself had urged by trying to swing a deal with Standard Oil of California to exploit Argentine oil.

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

Dag Hammarskjold dickered endlessly with the Congo's erratic politicians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Home folks were not buying; the rescued European nations forgot, as usual, their benefactor and dickered for meager supplies of meats and grains at other marts.

From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by George S. Harney

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

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

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

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