chaffer

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Verb
  • This comes after Hamas and Israel have exchanged surviving hostages and prisoners in the first phase of a ceasefire deal for the war in Gaza.
    NPR, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The theft dealt a significant operational and financial blow and the company shuttered operations in mid-2025.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Young Republicans implicated in a scandal over racist, antisemitic and misogynistic comments in leaked chat messages reported by Politico face mounting calls to step down from their positions in party organizations.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Contestants form bonds and make compatibility decisions while chatting through a wall, eventually getting engaged before meeting face-to-face for the first time.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The White House has not yet negotiated lower prices on IVF drugs from other manufacturers.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The only long-term solution — in my view — is a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank whose borders are negotiated with Israel.
    Thomas L. Friedman, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Now in a stunning new home, these objects seem to breathe and converse as never before.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Just as Italian Neorealism and Brazilian Cinema Novo once did, through his cinema, Walter’s inner space opens its doors horizontally, without agendas or hierarchies, so that all human emotion can converse within this personal yet collective space.
    Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The players argued the league refused to credibly bargain a new CBA by demanding terms that would mean less money shared with players.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • With Newsom’s signature now on AB 1340, drivers can collectively bargain and unionize, including negotiating contracts, which would set industry-wide standards, according to proponents like bill sponsors Assemblymembers Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, and Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kelce talked Wednesday about the good vibes in the Chiefs facility on the latest episode of the New Heights podcast.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The crows are back, talking to the dog again, and the other birds are singing in the trees.
    Joële Walinga, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another subtype is paltering, where the models use a selective true statement to mislead the human.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Rather than wait to share the witches’ paltering pronouncements with Lady M (Indira Varma) in person, the thane of Glamis chooses to send word to his wife in advance of his return from battle.
    Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
Verb
  • Erinys doesn't prate about democracy or social betterment but simply guards oil pipelines.
    Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 July 2004
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“Chaffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaffer. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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