haggle

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

It’s an imperfect analogy, but a company can’t sell the U.S. military a missile and then haggle about acceptable targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 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

“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

It’s not going to be because she haggles over paragraphs in the bill.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2021

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

From The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

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

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

By the time she reached the Purple Harbor, the old man was ensconced inside the soup shop at his usual table, counting a purse of coins as he haggled with a ship’s captain.

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

But first, he needs to hammer out a common stance between the parliament's different factions, which looked set to keep haggling until the last moment.

From Barron's ● May 19, 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

“Is it true that the Modegan nobility regard haggling as a contemptible activity for those of any highborn station?”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss