give-and-take
Example Sentences
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The give-and-take over bringing state workers into the office is playing out as public agencies take different approaches to remote work since the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
The European Union, with its cumbersome culture of consensus-building and give-and-take, was the most elaborate expression of that political way of life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
In terms of your partnership with Director Park on this project, can you talk about the give-and-take in terms of each of your interpretations of “The Sympathizer”?
From Salon • May 27, 2024
In that period, Alaska’s board adopted what is described in the proxy filing as “a give-and-take approach.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024
I saw Malcolm X too many times exhilarated in after-lecture give-and-take with predominantly white student bodies at colleges and universities to ever believe that he nurtured at his core any blanket white-hatied.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
