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haggle

[hag-uhl] / ˈhæg əl /


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The app also uses agentic AI capabilities to cancel unwanted subscriptions, haggle bills and find class-action lawsuits on behalf of users.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 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 snagged the seats, breaking into a sweat over the cost but hopeful I could haggle with United later about who would pay for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

Buyers flocked around the barrels and stalls to haggle over winkles, rJanM, and river pike.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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

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

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

As the two sides haggled, furor was growing among opponents of the merger, with activists including actor Mark Ruffalo on social media calling on Bonta to hold the line.

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 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

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

No one wants to waste the weekend haggling over $20.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

It could be that they didn’t want haggling over salary to tank their chances for a new job, researchers said.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

When they recovered enough to make money, she would drive them to the wall, haggling them to death, lapsing into Yiddish when the going got tough.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride


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