haggle

Garage-sale shoppers are typically not afraid to haggle, so you could try pricing items a little higher and see where negotiations lead.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

In 2023, Orsted, Equinor and British major BP booked impairments totaling nearly $5 billion as costs spiraled, suppliers lagged and regulators refused to allow firms to haggle for higher power-purchase prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

In the midst of Belém’s COP30 bedlam, environmentalists, economists, lobbyists and diplomats busily haggle at the global climate conference about what we can and cannot get away with in negotiations over Mother Nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

In short: months and months of talking, as party leaders try to form a workable coalition and haggle over a government programme palatable to all sides.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

He passed that by, but a few steps on he stopped again to haggle over a pair of gloves at a leatherworker’s stall.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

In “Between Riverside and Crazy,” a Black man haggles over the concessions he’s being offered by his former employer, the New York Police Department, eight years after he was shot by a white cop.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

He haggles with a supermarket cashier, admires the paved roads, poses with a power mower to impress a cousin back home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021

McGee notes that Washington often haggles as all sides try to cut a deal.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 1, 2020

The markets are always a necessary visit, and it helps that he speaks Cantonese and haggles for me.

From The Verge ● Dec. 15, 2017

He decks his window artfully, He haggles over paltry sums.

From Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer

I want to hear about a time when you successfully haggled to score a great deal.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

A white-haired man in a Tommy Bahama shirt amiably haggled two dollars off his peaches.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

The deal with the EU seeks to smoothen frictions in trade, but there are a whole load of details and specifics, timeframes and costs still to be haggled over and sorted.

From BBC ● May 19, 2025

As they haggled over the number of centrifuges Iran could build, they also defused potential crises.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

We haggled with a handcart vendor for two big bunches of bananas, one ready to eat, the other still green, so it would ripen in a day or two.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

This week in the Don’t Short Yourself newsletter, Genna Contino provided numerous examples of how you can save a ton of money by haggling.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Yet his attitude of constant haggling over everything that isn’t nailed down, and some things that were supposed to be, isn’t helpful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

In a damp back alley, Jingjing joined job-seekers milling about leisurely, haggling for higher wages while garment bosses perched on scooters brandished hiring signs, desperate for day labourers.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Be prepared for haggling after the results themselves, mind.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Unnoticed by the townspeople, who were busy sweeping up glass and haggling over the price of the fuel, Will followed the bear-king up the gangway and aboard the ship.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman