counteroffer

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Recent Examples of counteroffer Sherin Olivero, a city official, said the counteroffer was based on an appraisal done by Semple Appraisals Inc. Krissy Waite, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025 Hamilton County made a counteroffer on April 11, outlining a new lease agreement for 15 years with the team contributing $312.5 million and the county contributing $357.5 million. Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 Identify three data points that support a counteroffer of $X in this cooling market. Kwame Christian Esq, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 Trump can oscillate between impatience with Putin, even threatening Russia with sanctions coordinated with Europe, and backtracking after Putin makes just a marginal counteroffer in bad faith. Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for counteroffer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counteroffer
Noun
  • The Senate rejected the Democratic counterproposal on Tuesday 47-53 along party lines.
    Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Yesterday, a vote on a Republican plan to extend funding through November peeled off a couple of senators who caucus with Democrats, but still fell five votes short of the necessary sixty-vote threshold; a Democratic counterproposal failed by a wider margin.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The proposal would assign a DOJ team from another district to examine device backups and cloud data obtained from an attorney, segregating any privileged content.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • As Sportico reported, OHSAA has considered proposals to drop its ban and intends to accelerate review of another proposal to do so.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lauper declined the offer to focus on her music, and the 1988 rom-com movie about an ambitious Manhattan secretary with big dreams went on to become a box-office smash.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In the 1980s, Singapore began competing directly with businesses for top graduates, offering early job offers, and eventually linking senior civil service pay to private-sector salaries.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The prevailing wisdom is that Medicaid is a losing proposition for health facilities, an insurance program so stingy that many can’t afford to take it.
    Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Gibson the director is seemingly viewed by many buyers as a different proposition to Gibson the actor.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Any of Morocco’s front three could have featured here; all credible suggestions for player of the tournament.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • OpenAI can use the SAI team’s knowledge of the macOS platform to develop new ways for ChatGPT not just to make suggestions about, but to agentically work directly on users’ macOS environments.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Counteroffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counteroffer. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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