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parley

[pahr-lee] / ˈpɑr li /


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By that standard President Trump’s Beijing parley with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week was a success.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Sadat was assassinated in October 1981, a scant three years after that historic parley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025

Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2023

After the Twitter tango exchange, Falck reached out to his old friend Shah to see if he and their bosses would be amenable to a parley.

From The Verge • Nov. 4, 2021

Both armies will have to stay well back for the parley.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin




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