as in negotiating
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase
had to haggle to get his friend to sell his guitar for 20 bucks
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Recent Examples of haggling
Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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
That language was ultimately stripped from the bill in end-of-session haggling.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
Posey did not draw out the process by haggling with Willy Adames or balk at a no-trade clause or give pause to breaking his own record for the largest contract in franchise history.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for haggling
Verb
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While major pro sports leagues feature a stable arrangement, with unionized players negotiating a CBA and collectively bargained terms exempt from antitrust scrutiny, the opposite is true in college sports.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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The official also said that a negotiating team was getting ready to travel, but there was no date specified.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Delegates of Workers United and the company resumed bargaining in April 2024 with the goal of ratifying a new contract by the end of the year, but that never came to pass as negotiations stalled with both sides blaming the other for not coming to the table.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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Two Democrats, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Senator John Fetterman, have already backed the Republican bill to keep the government open in the short-term on current terms while fuller appropriations bargaining takes place.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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On a day the 49ers’ normally dominant running game never got going, Jones was dealing.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Proposition 36 strengthens penalties for people who have repeatedly been convicted of using and dealing hard drugs such as fentanyl.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Ascension Wisconsin patients insured by UnitedHealthcare are scrambling to find new doctors or rearrange their health care plans, after contract negotiations between the health system and insurer failed.—
Sarah Volpenhein,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The offer letters for Elevate’s managers of the state Growth Fund also say that the managers can earn interest off the Growth fund as part of their compensation, the audit states, but this potential financial gain was not disclosed to the IEDC during the negotiations over the Growth Fund.—
Hayleigh Colombo,
IndyStar,
6 Oct. 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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“Haggling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haggling. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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