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
“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
Kassem has prudently allowed the foreign oil company to continue production, thus assuring himself of a continuing income while he dickers for help in getting his own company on its feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I gathered that the heft of his spare change had come from dickers in stocks and bonds.
From The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016
There he dickered with General Medbouh, the nominal leader of the coup attempt.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
The ladies sat; they dickered and examined—we exhibited and put away, the beau lying crouched and crucifying at our feet, and we sniggering fit to burst at the contretemps of the poor victim.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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
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
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
When the dickering was done, the knight slung his weapons, shield, and saddlebag over his shoulder and asked for directions to the nearest smithy.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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