as in dealing
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase
they dickered over the price of the car for a few minutes
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Fast forward to this month when Tooley was accused of dealing 100 grams of crack cocaine near Fields Corner in Dorchester, just a short distance away from his legal firm Adapt & Evolve LLC.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025 -
In São Paulo, the NFL star inadvertently collided with star wide receiver Xavier Worthy in the opening minutes, injuring the Texas product and dealing yet another blow to the team’s depth chart at WR, since Rashee Rice is serving a six-game suspension pegged to a high-speed car crash in 2024.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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Since returning to work, the union has taken other actions in an effort to pressure Canada Post back to the bargaining table.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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The bargaining unit would include 75 artists and animation workers across film and television including character effects artists, animators, technical directors, lighters, visual development artists, modelers, production coordinators, supervisors and more.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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Ukraine is also negotiating to sell its drone technology to the US and has offered other European countries assistance in dealing with incursions by drones.—
Victoria Butenko,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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Christina Jolley, the senior vice president at Blanca Commercial Real Estate, said her team is negotiating with companies from a variety of industries, including tech, law, healthcare and marketing.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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But after that, troops would be at the mercy of negotiations on Capitol Hill, which remain at a stalemate.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
30 Sep. 2025
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ProPublica has learned that the contractor relayed information including handwritten Salvadoran documents about the gang negotiations.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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The customer service representative informed the man both transactions had been completed and all transactions are final and irreversible, according to the complaint.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Oct. 2025
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Krispy Kreme has since sold off its stake, a transaction that valued the business at $350 million in total enterprise value—about double the worth at the acquisition.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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The lowest quality, distressed segment is still seeing some bargain hunters, so there is something of a bar-bell effect.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
25 Sep. 2025
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Which inexpensive movies will emerge as Movies Fantasy League bargains?—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Dickering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dickering. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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