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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