haggle
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However, if you haggle for a lower rate, he said, a broker will often try to get one for you.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
That means the deals are likely here to stay, and you have time to educate yourself, take some test drives, and haggle harder for the car you want at a price you can afford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
"I don't think we should be using the hereditary privilege we have in the Lords to haggle or negotiate for life peerages," the earl said.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
“Each piece represents a store we love, a lucky find or a successful haggle that ended with us carrying home something with history.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
“I am in something of a hurry, Borgin, I have important business elsewhere today —” They started to haggle.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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
This was voted in rapid manner; but again, in the detail of executing, it was liable to haggles.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle
A white-haired man in a Tommy Bahama shirt amiably haggled two dollars off his peaches.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
He has haggled about the price, which makes my brother think it’s a legit offer.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025
As they haggled over the number of centrifuges Iran could build, they also defused potential crises.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
One migrant in Plattsburgh, Javier Semeco, 34, from Colombia, hugged his 8-year-old boy as he haggled with a taxi driver who was trying to charge him $70 for a short ride to the Canadian border.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Throughout those days, while we scratched and haggled for our daily bread, I had a photograph of President Eisenhower for company in my kitchen house.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Be prepared for haggling after the results themselves, mind.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
The grandson of a carpet merchant, he likened negotiations to bargaining in the Iranian bazaar, where endless haggling using different arguments brings results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
The haggling may also be part of it.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025
Jetten appointed Wouter Koolmees, head of national rail firm NS, as scout to lead the haggling.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
They begin haggling over a price like I've seen the women in jail do when someone has been able to smuggle in a thing from outside that everyone else wants.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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