parley

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

Optional garnishes: parley, sliced lemon and/or save a few whole shrimp to place on top when serving.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024

My dad had a never-ending parley with pirates, but I would break the cycle “Hacker!” my brother muttered behind me.

From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022

There was alight in the parley room window.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Last February, after multiple military parleys, Indian and Chinese troops completed a pullout from a lake area in Ladakh.

From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022

Whereas posts on Twitter are called tweets, on Parler they are known as "parleys."

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2021

There are meals of carne asada and manioc soup; parleys over endless rounds of yerba maté; social scandals that erupt at horse races; deadly tropical fevers; and red dust, relentless sun, and clouds of mosquitoes.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

Middle Eastern Christians have no army of their own, no government that represents them in world capitals, no voice in international parleys that have a bearing on their fate.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2015

No seconds or parleys allowed for love or money.

From Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The tectonic buzz and growl of a didgeridoo, played with athletic skill by Harry Wilson, parleyed with the music, then settled beneath it like bedrock.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019

For her guides across the universe, Reid gets three masters of space and time: the first is played by Mindy Kaling, who parleyed the sitcom she created into multiple book deals and a growing empire.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2018

He parleyed that experience into an underdog run for the U.S.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2016

A couple of winners parleyed their F-I-F-T-E-E-N minutes of fame into writing training books for aspiring champions: A Champion's Guide to Success in Spelling Bees and How to Spell Like a Champ.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2012

The old trader took two bottles of port, opened the fort gates, walked out and sat down on a French cannon while he parleyed with de Troyes for the best terms obtainable.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

A comeback means nothing without the proper follow-through; it only officially reaches completion when the party in question cements their newfound legitimacy by parleying it into a more protracted stretch of success.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2017

And, not that I’m complaining, the PS4 and Xbox One are basically cheap midrange PCs, parleying the lingua franca of a decades-old gaming paradigm interface-wise.

From Time ● Nov. 26, 2014

Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho have spent more than 45 hours parleying in Paris during the past month, trying to salvage last January's Indochina cease-fire agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

France and Germany had done most of the parleying.

From Time Magazine Archive

She heard the voice of the Savage parleying with silence.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley