as in bargaining
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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
Noun
That language was ultimately stripped from the bill in end-of-session haggling.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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
Noun
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The bargaining unit would include workers across production, food service, box office and door staff at all four venues.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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More recently, Justice Brian Hagedorn stepped away from a case regarding the Act 10 public bargaining law, while Justice Janet Protasiewicz rejected calls to recuse from the case.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Republicans have not been negotiating.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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And less than 24 hours after the governor undercut Woodward at LSU, the athletic director was, to no one’s surprise, negotiating his exit strategy from the school.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The league has no salary cap, and heading into negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement ahead of a 2026 deadline it is expected that owners will take a firm position against the players’ union in trying to secure one.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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Trump recently halted Canadian trade negotiations after an ad funded by the province of Ontario featured a 1987 anti-tariff speech by former President Ronald Reagan.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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In this case, the majority of the court reached for an issue no one presented, setting aside the normal procedure of dealing only with the facts and questions presented by the litigants, Wood said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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If Robinson is out for multiple weeks, this could keep the Miami front office from dealing any of their pass rushers.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Zell and the president of the Zell family office EGI, Mark Sotir, would push Swain to arrange transactions that raised the bar for capturing a share of the profits, but gave the management teams an even bigger score for fabulous results.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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Certain transactions listed in Olson’s disclosures suggest Welton was receiving compensation for work related to the former lawmaker’s legislative duties in addition to campaign services.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Haggling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haggling. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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