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Instead, they arranged to trade services through a barter system in which state-backed Chinese companies in Iran build infrastructure there as compensation for oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Plus, it creates new headaches for companies, many of which would likely jockey for workarounds as the administration has shown a willingness to barter tariffs for other commitments, he adds.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Try to get a car at an auto rental agency without booking it online first; you might as well attempt to barter your watch and three chickens as payment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

Together, the data support a new interpretation of Monte Sierpe as an Indigenous center for barter and exchange that may have evolved into an accounting system under Inca rule.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2025

He could not yet feel it was really his loaf to barter.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Iran then buys goods and services from China or it barters the oil in return for Chinese companies to build infrastructure inside Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Luis said he then buys dollar-denominated stablecoins on overseas crypto markets, which he barters for pesos on peer-to-peer exchanges in Argentina -- all under the radar of Argentine tax and financial authorities.

From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023

As the creators and showrunners of HBO’s “Westworld,” based on the original film and screenplay by Michael Crichton, they were no strangers to sci-fi that barters in slippery notions of reality.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

It’s a cerebral film that barters in riddles.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

Life in the Fen was apparently a series of barters.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Cicely Muldoon, a former superintendent of Yosemite, said the swap would set a dangerous precedent by signaling that protected natural spaces can be bartered away to private interests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Allen bartered the show for free to TV stations in exchange for a split of the revenues from selling commercials to advertisers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

In a time where edgy influencers like Clavicular and HSTikkyTokky are reposted, shared, and platformed for their ability to provoke, morality is bartered for popularity.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

Scholars suggest that some of these human remains were bartered items or gifts, but others may have been taken away without the consent of their owners.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024

He had access to four apartments, all filled with things that could be used and bartered.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

In his plea, Max acknowledged bartering art for real estate and hiding income to buy real estate in Southampton, New York, the US Virgin Islands and upstate New York.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Some vendors at the Central Avenue Farmers Market are open to bartering or trading with customers experiencing food scarcity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

There’s also a bartering and swap group where folks negotiate clever exchanges: “I have an unused air fryer. You have an unused desk chair. Want to swap?”

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025

"I think there was a lot of bartering," captain McIntosh says, "trying to get good deals, where we'd get breakfast and tea included."

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

Emenike was one of the few people for whom “to read” did not mean “to study,” and so they would spend hours talking about books, bartering knowledge for knowledge, and playing Scrabble.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie