How to Use fair/square deal in a Sentence

fair/square deal

noun
  • For their part, the major studios have said their goal is to reach a fair deal.
    — Anousha Sakoui, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
  • Get back to the table and get a fair deal so everyone can get back to work.
    — EW.com, 21 Oct. 2023
  • If this sounds intriguing, just be prepared to spend a fair deal of cash on the turntable.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 June 2021
  • But until the actors and studios can reach a fair deal, all that the crews can do is wait.
    — Sofía Tafich, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2023
  • For the most part, spotting all that garbage still requires the naked eye and a fair deal of walking.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Gadson maintains that guild members are ready to tough out a long work stoppage in their pursuit of a fair deal.
    — William Earl, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • If doing away with cash sounds ideal to you, barterers have shared tips on how to get a fair deal with Life Kit.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Black families report being forced to code-switch when trying to get a fair deal on buying or selling a home.
    — Terri Huggins, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Now Wentzville Assembly is down thanks to Lear's refusal to bargain a fair deal.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
  • Outside actors, too, expect to be applying oversight to make sure that the nonprofit gets a fair deal.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The weight and strength of the high-end ABS plastic cables are designed to withstand a fair deal of use.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Like any business, Garvey’s shipping investment made its fair deal of mistakes.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Their demands seem unremarkable, even in an America where workers scratch and scrape to get a fair deal.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But Bungie has had a fair deal of success using copyright law as a legal cudgel against the makers of the cheats themselves.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Ensuring that the farmers and workers in developing countries receive a fair deal for their work.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The strike helped build momentum for the union’s efforts, as Starbucks employees continue to push for a fair deal.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2025
  • With about $10 million in seed funding, Tolan faces a fair deal of competition from much larger players.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • We will not be manipulated by this cynical ploy to engineer an extension when the companies have had more than enough time to make a fair deal.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Amazon Autos aims for competitive, no-haggle pricing that allows customers to get a fair deal from the comfort of their homes.
    — Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Like the release concert, the albums themselves show a fair deal of collaboration between the two musicians.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 14 July 2021
  • What looked like a fair deal at the time of his signing turned into a bargain once MacKinnon took a massive step forward near the start of the contract.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 16 July 2024
  • These workers are often focused on getting a fair deal, which has been a struggle for service workers, in the US in particular, in recent decades.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The Walsh–Biden agreement is a fair deal, arrived at through the proper procedures, and one that railroads and a majority of unions have accepted.
    — The Editors, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But White said his mission was to get a fair deal for the taxpayers and urged patience in the face of pressure from the Royals and Chiefs for an April sales tax vote.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Henry De Groot, 28, of Boston, has driven for both companies on and off for five years but says the ballot proposal question isn’t a fair deal.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 July 2024
  • In previous remarks at rallies, Walters has said the union will not accept going months without a fair deal, which was the case in 2019 when workers came close to walking off the job.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • While Hollywood studios’ failure to strike a fair deal with writers and actors hasn’t caused any real pain for Netflix (yet), that’s not the case over at the platform’s broadcast network rivals.
    — Vulture, 20 July 2023
  • Boeser, a 40-goal scorer last season and one of the NHL’s top 50 goal scorers across the last five years, is looking for a square deal with the sort of term and security befitting his production.
    — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 5 Mar. 2025

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