bartered

past tense of barter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bartered
Verb
  • Forecasting tournaments and election markets have beaten their baselines, but no study has shown a crowd signal can be traded profitably at scale.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The 23-year-old jumped off the tape during his limited touches after getting traded to Philadelphia last season, and few , if any, offer Bigsby’s upside at his ADP.
    Jess Bryant, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Like other major sports leagues, the WNBA’s eligibility rule is collectively bargained and thus protected by the non-statutory labor exemption.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Lujan believes Denver could have negotiated a much better deal.
    Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Raman hit Bass early on in the debate, saying the mayor negotiated an expensive package of police raises that the city couldn’t afford.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Aggregated across 115 million American adults, the team puts the total consumer surplus at roughly $172 billion a year — value received and never transacted, comfortably more than the AI industry collected in American revenue over the same period.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 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
  • The pair also exchanged views on recent diplomatic efforts aimed at advancing political and diplomatic solutions, the statement read, without going into further details.
    August 20, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • And then a full-on brawl with punches exchanged to top it off.
    Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Taylor Swift has been dealt a devastating blow just weeks after exchanging vows with Travis Kelce.
    Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The war has dealt another major blow to Iran’s economy, deepening the state of economic crisis the country was already in.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Lured by the promise of a well-paying insurance job, Ganea arrived in Thailand to turn a page in his life but was instead trafficked across the border into Myanmar.
    Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The deal would resolve lawsuits brought by relatives of people whose remains were donated for research, then allegedly trafficked by a former morgue employee.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • While on tour together, Rise Against and Architects even swapped members while playing each other’s namesake songs.
    Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
  • To grow the bottom line, executives are focused on both bolstering the network’s place as the cable bundle’s most valuable channel and reaching a new generation of fans who have largely swapped channel flipping with feed swiping.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2026
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“Bartered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bartered. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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