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noun

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Recent Examples of haggle
Verb
Unlike other teams who haggle over one or two million euros, Como were happy to immediately spend €6m on Paz. Guillermo Rai, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 While there aren’t any hard and fast rules to haggling in the city, there are guidelines for doing it respectfully. Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2025 More than a month after Washington and Kyiv first haggled over a deal to grant the United States a major stake in Ukraine’s mineral, oil and gas development projects, the two sides are back to square one in the negotiations. Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 Gone are the days when streamers and distributors haggled all night to layout bids that were in the tens of millions of dollars. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for haggle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for haggle
Verb
  • His special envoy to Ukraine set a goal of negotiating an agreement even quicker during the first 100 days of Trump's term.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Still, there’s a fine line between negotiating smartly and offending a seller.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There's also great uncertainty as Trump seeks negotiations with China and begins talks with other counties whose larger tariffs were delayed by 90 days.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The Treasury secretary has led negotiations with Japan and other nations to try and broker trade agreements.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The conquest of Taiwan would also deal a huge blow to Chinese soft power.
    RANA MITTER, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The resolution expressed the sentiment of the Senate and did not have the force of law, but the 51-48 passage dealt an embarrassing blow to the president.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With security threats increasingly powered by AI, from sophisticated Gmail attacks to malicious advertising accounts that can lead to search engine compromise, there’s no doubt that this is the new frontier of the cybersecurity badlands.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Other donors agree with Trump administration criticisms that many nonprofits or institutions have become too ideologically one-sided and political and should be seeking to reform or compromise.
    Hayley Cuccinello,Robert Frank, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The association contends these actions violate state rules requiring public employers to bargain over such matters, infringing on deputies’ rights and the union’s ability to represent them.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The proposals were aimed at protecting government employees’ ability to collectively bargain amid attacks by the Trump administration, preventing cuts to food stamps and to show support for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Ukraine, respectively.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 5 Apr. 2025

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