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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, I dickered the things off at a good price, as I was a-saying, and have got the money safe in my bosom—a hiding-place sacred to myself alone.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

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

He stayed on in Iraq, dickering with various factions for a slice of power, hoping always that he would emerge as a compromise candidate for prime minister.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 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