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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

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

Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

He once dickered with Communism's Ho Chi Minh for armed help in ridding Cambodia of the French.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Stamford Raffles, dickered the island away from the Sultan of Johore's heir.

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

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

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

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