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as in deals
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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as in chats
British
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
just a couple of blokes chaffering at the neighborhood pub
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The Supreme Court’s decision deals a devastating blow to beneficiaries of TPS holders in South Florida, the heart of the Haitian community in the United States.
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Amazon Prime Day is here (and running through June 26), meaning a boatload of Prime Day furniture deals on just about every type of seating and storage under the sun just dropped.
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While Yahia chats with The Star, his daughter, Hannah, takes a tray of baklava out of the oven.
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Inside the motel, Paula chats with Sky.
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Canada negotiates lower drug prices for all its citizens under its universal health care system.
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The fundraising comes as SpaceX negotiates to pay razor-thin fees to the Wall Street firms, though banks are still likely to rake in about $500 million.
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Instead, the guy talks to dead barkeeps and wields an ax more than his typewriter.
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Albert Saijo, second semester editor of Echoes, Heart Mountain high school publication, talks things over with Hisako Takehara and Alice Tanouye, first semester co-editors.
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The union usually bargains in the same year as performers’ union SAG-AFTRA and directors’ union the Directors Guild of America.
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One potential—though untested—workaround would be for conferences, which are private entities, to serve as a joint employer that bargains with a players’ union.
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Epstein converses with Summers Larry Summers, Clinton’s Treasury secretary and the director of the National Economic Council under former President Obama, corresponded with Epstein numerous times via email.
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As Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom powers America’s economy, rattles its job market, and shapes its national security priorities, political leaders are struggling for traction on how the government should seek to engage the technology, if at all.
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Israeli military warning rattles coastal city Israeli strikes over southern Lebanon continued, especially in and around the battered cities of Tyre and Nabatiyeh.
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“Chaffers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaffers. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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