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haggle

[hag-uhl] / ˈhæg əl /


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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

“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

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

“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

The pawnbroker advances not more than a twentieth part of their value, and haggles over that. 

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

The states and Paramount haggled over potential sales of cable channels including CNN, a step California and Connecticut pushed for, people familiar with the situation said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 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

The fishmonger and I haggled over the sea bass.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025

She would notice that the sunshine cake was too haggled to put before him and decide on a rennet dessert.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

The haggling has certainly played out more publicly than most negotiations.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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

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

Along its dirt-swept streets, grocers stood posted beside stalls of fresh fruit, haggling down their final sales as shops prepared to close.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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