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Recent Examples of negotiate The political landscape Spanberger and Earle-Sears will negotiate between now and November likely favors Democrats, but still offers opportunities for Republicans. Margaret Barthel, NPR, 17 June 2025 No fans of a nuclear Iran, Democrats recall the landmark deal the Obama Administration negotiated with Tehran that Trump quickly abandoned in his first term. Philip Elliott, Time, 17 June 2025 Buyers for low- and middle-income countries are often health ministries and community organizations on tight budgets that have to negotiate with sellers that may have substantial market power and far more experience. Nahim Bin Zahur, The Conversation, 17 June 2025 For starters, unlike Trump’s single-minded focus on China during his first-term trade war, Trump 2.0 is sparring with every country on the planet with the ostensible goal of negotiating freer and fairer trade deals, from our closest democratic allies to the Chinese Communist Party. Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for negotiate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negotiate
Verb
  • The park hosts various stargazing events, and larger groups can arrange hour-long astronomy programs (pending staff availability).
    Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 June 2025
  • Fun fact: Cohen arranged the casting contract for his former Goonies costar Ke Huy Quan for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
    Sarah Weldon, EW.com, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • In the government’s view, UBS’s American business, which manages $2.1 trillion for wealthy clients and lends them money, is a potential risk, and regulators want the bank to increase its ability to absorb steep losses there.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
  • Kieran manages to survive, and Sean is finally held accountable and arrested for the deaths of Gabby Birch and Bronte Laidler.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • But the lesson of the ’74 Act is clear: Absent congressional will, lawmakers inevitably will find ways to manipulate their own rules to make deficits even worse.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • Our Senate and representatives are all manipulating their own power rather than running the country.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • To comply with those rules, any provision needs to deal primarily with the federal budget and not government policy.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025
  • After his release from jail, Fafara tried several jobs but eventually returned to dealing drugs.
    Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • But the next challenge will be executing those plans.
    Adam Rasmi, Time, 20 June 2025
  • For example, Southwest executes over 4,000 flights per day with a fleet of just over 800 airplanes, or around five flights per day per airplane.
    Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Bowling Green concludes the regular season November 25 at UMass, the team’s only trip outside the region, though like the other 11 games is in the Eastern Time Zone.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • That opinion echoed what previous official inquiries had concluded.
    Sarah Bedford, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
Verb
  • Production is being handled by Fortiche Films (Jérôme Combe, Hervé Dupont), with Les Storygraphes and ARTE France onboard as co-producers.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 10 June 2025
  • The collection also includes three of Made In’s award-winning French knives—a chef knife, utility knife, and paring knife—with unique denim micarta knife handles.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • On that basis, when prices rise, the central bank attempts to slow the economy or even engineer a recession.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Berkshire helped engineer the 2015 merger between Kraft Foods and HJ Heinz that created the company.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 17 June 2025

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“Negotiate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiate. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.

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