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
Together they organized the Czech Mafia, a secret band of patriots who spied throughout Austria-Hungary during the War, providing Benes with material which he made the substance of dickers with the Allies.
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
Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frank dickers with him in his counting-room, Tommy chases him in the play-ground, Mrs. Asmodeus makes him a fashionable call, and—God help us all!—we sometimes find him sitting domiciliated at our hearthstones.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
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
Sir Stamford Raffles, dickered the island away from the Sultan of Johore's heir.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rodzinski dickered with Leeds, and last March Florence got busy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that I've ever taken a dollar for my personal pocket, for I haven't; but I've bought and sold and dickered and schemed with the best of 'em, and the worst of 'em.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
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
The frenzy of last-minute dickering over the new law, SHB 1240, is a sign of its import.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
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
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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