chaffering

present participle of chaffer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaffering
Verb
  • Philadelphia Phillies starter Aaron Nola was dealing through four innings.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Tight end Dae’Quan Wright added 9 receptions for 99 yards and 2 touchdowns as Ole Miss tied its highest point total ever against an SEC opponent while dealing Arkansas one of the most painful home losses of the Coach Sam Pittman era.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The next generation For the original Bridge Crew, what worked was the camaraderie, the teamwork, and the feeling of chatting in the ready room with your friends about how to do the next mission.
    Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In a statement to USA TODAY, Discord disputed statements that the messages were sent on the chatting platform.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Traditional approaches focus on financial engineering such as negotiating discounts for long-term commitments, or on observability tools that track who is running what.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Teamsters announced on Facebook late Friday that their negotiating team has a tentative agreement for members to vote on, ending the strike and allowing next weekend’s Farm Aid concert to continue as planned at the U’s Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
    Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Powered by Apple Intelligence, a new Live Translation mode is said to deliver near real-time language translation to your ears when conversing with someone who speaks another language.
    Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Bowie this week was advised by the city attorney’s office that she had been seen conversing with the Taylors in the hallway outside the council chambers, which could be construed as stepping outside of her role as a neutral party in an appeals hearing.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Contenders for the leadership of Brazil’s right wing coalition are already emerging and are bargaining for Bolsonaro’s endorsement for being presidential candidates in the 2026 elections.
    Adriana Carranca, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This can mean collectively bargaining with employers and negotiating wages.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The next battleground is the execution layer, where the question becomes not just who builds the models, but who profits when AI stops talking and starts acting for users.
    Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Kelly began the livestream upon the news of Kirk's shooting in Utah and learned of his death while talking with Glenn Beck.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Whether gazing from Gellért Hill or haggling for paprika in the Great Market Hall—the city reveals itself in fragments—intimate, contradictory, and impossible to forget.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For anyone who haven’t heard about NuPhy’s GhostBar, this is how the company’s designers stop the larger keys from rattling and sounding cheap and hollow.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Dialogue stays crisp for late-night Netflix, and game audio feels punchy without rattling the shelves.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Chaffering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaffering. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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