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Evan Dudley, al, 1 Aug. 2023
This international exposure Emad hopes to parley into a Hollywood career.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 7 Dec. 2022
In May, delegates from the Dobson Noise Coalition parleyed with delegates from CyrusOne, including an acoustic consultant the company had hired.
—Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
Generations of Indian bureaucrats had parleyed with them to try winning over Kashmiris, greasing the wheels with subsidies.
—The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
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.
—Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
Iran’s reluctance to parley comes from the very top.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
But they are flattered that outsiders are interested, and insist on their right to parley with all comers.
—The Economist, 24 Aug. 2019
Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
Thursday's parley was the first formal meeting between senior diplomats from the two nations since Riyadh severed ties in 2016 after Iranian protesters invaded Saudi diplomatic posts in response to Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 6 Apr. 2023
The three men have agreed to a parley after Prince Philip’s funeral, a last-ditch effort to resolve some of the family conflicts that drove Harry from his ancestral home.
—Time, 10 Jan. 2023
Together, Houston businessmen Charles Tate and John Nau III and James Leininger, San Antonio school voucher advocate, sprang for $40,400 to help Perry, his wife Anita and others hold the parley in the Abaco Islands.
—Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
Midway through the first act of Wakanda Forever, Ryan Coogler’s follow-up to 2018’s Marvel blockbuster Black Panther, the action breaks for a parley session.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2022
Before the parley can devolve into violence (courtesy of Daemon), the usurped queen stopped them, and told Otto to wait for her answer.
—Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
For starters, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) and his Democratic opponent Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes on Thursday held their second and final midterms parley, a contentious back-and-forth ruled unlikely to change the outcome of the election.
—Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 17 Oct. 2022
In the ensuing parley with the Adjudicator, Winston declared fealty to the High Table and shot John, who tumbled off the rooftop to the ground.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 July 2022
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Word History
Verb
derivative of parley entry 2
Noun
Middle English parlay "speech," borrowed from Anglo-French parlee, parly "speech, conversation, debate," probably noun derivative from feminine of parlé, past participle of parler "to speak, talk," going back to early Medieval Latin parabolāre, noun derivative of Late Latin parabola "comparison, allegory, proverb, discourse, speech" — more at parable
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derived from early French parler "to speak" — related to parliament, parlor see Word History at parlor
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