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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

Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered.

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

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

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

He dickered with the Navy, in the summer of 1940 landed a $32,800,000 contract for ten submarines.

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

We dickered a while and at last struck a bargain.

From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford

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

I dart a quick glance toward Miss Duncan, who is still dickering with the carriage driver.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland