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
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
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
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
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
Rodzinski dickered with Leeds, and last March Florence got busy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Wakefield Cadman considered, George Gershwin dickered, Irving Berlin contracted last week to write musical themes for the new sound-pictures, the audible cinema.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were passing a row of open-fronted shops on the edges of which customers were squatted looking at materials while the proprietor bobbed and smiled and dickered over his bargains.
From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Katherine Stokes
One reason is the endless, costly dickering among middlemen like Envision and UnitedHealth to make sure they get their share of the bucks sloshing around in the system.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 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
When we first meet him, he’s on the phone, dickering over the details of his recent purchase of the aforementioned plane, in which he plans to fly with his much younger, British fiancée to London.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015
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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