bartered

past tense of barter

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Verb
  • But the Liberty stayed in front as both teams traded baskets, 24-24, in the third quarter before closing it out in the final period.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • At Montauk Yacht Club, where the docks became home to Camp FFF for a couple of days, entrepreneurs traded war stories over panels, games of tug-of-war and dinners curated by chef-in-residence Alison Roman.
    Amy Francombe, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The luxury tax was collectively bargained with a tax utilized to constrain owners from overspending the annual threshold.
    Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The league, through an eligibility rule bargained with the NBPA, closed the door to high schoolers starting with the 2006 NBA Draft.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • Suffice it to say that the Kittrells could probably have negotiated much better deals with their creditors than 100 cents on the dollar.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who negotiated the 39 percent compromise, has stressed that Congress wrote the cap into law specifically to keep the FCC from changing it.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Our agent is capable of recommending optimal solutions that can be transacted instantly online.
    Rob Green, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • For decades, billions of dollars in advertising have been transacted on Nielsen ratings that tabulate how many people saw a TV program or commercial, and, also on how many people of a certain age or gender did as well.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • Thorne and Zendaya exchanged notes and realized the animosity between them wasn’t coming from either one.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Since first participating in the CRS in 2018, offshore financial account information has been continuously exchanged with Chinese tax authorities.
    Anniek Bao,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The high court dealt Trump both of the losses during the term that ended in June, striking down his executive order to end birthright citizenship and blocking his attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.
    Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Another judge dealt the backers of the measure a second loss by tentatively finding that their description of the measure, submitted for the official state voter’s guide, was misleading.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The government has been required by law for decades to protect migrant children who are in the country illegally without guardians, over fears they could be exploited, abused or trafficked.
    Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In recent years, West Africa has emerged as a key transit route for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe, with smugglers taking advantage of porous borders and weak enforcement in parts of the region.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Bookstores needed a similar rehaul and every bit of Nike branding – on office, arena and stadium walls and hallways – had to be swapped in a no-swoosh left behind conversion to three stripes.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Reliever swap While these were two separate trades, Miami essentially swapped out Bachar for Vodnik in the bullpen.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
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“Bartered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bartered. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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