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
Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered.
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
After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.
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
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
The U.S., which had 40 negotiators working in relays, dickered for lower duties abroad on U.S. tobacco, foodstuffs and autos.
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
Thinking that it might be possible to secure a canoe from here to Pueblo Viejo, we dickered with a boatman at the wharf.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
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
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
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