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chaffered

verb

past tense of chaffer

as in dealt

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase in that country you're expected to chaffer with the vendors at the bazaar

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British to engage in casual or rambling conversation just a couple of blokes chaffering at the neighborhood pub

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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

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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

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Merzel tossed him and Sale said something to crew chief Dan Bellino as the two talked near the dugout rail.

— Larry Fleisher, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026
The latest venture from Soho House founder Nick Jones, the restaurant has quickly become one of the area’s most talked-about new openings, so reservations are recommended.

— Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of talked

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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

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For a moment, two referees from the Falcons’ seventh training camp practice looked at each other, conversed and truly didn’t know what to rule.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 5 Aug. 2026
But today’s linguistic diversity may be only the shadow of a time when humans conversed in 10 times as many tongues.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 23 July 2026

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