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as in to arrange
to bring about through discussion and compromise
wanted to negotiate a higher salary before she accepted the job offer
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as in to manage
to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently
she's good at negotiating personality conflicts between coworkers
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as in to manipulate
to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
the prisoners negotiated their escape by using Morse code to tap messages to each other through the walls
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as in to deal
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase
told them I'd take $8,000 for the car and wasn't in the mood to negotiate
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as in to execute
to carry through (as a process) to completion
scores of experiments later, the chemists managed to negotiate the development of a more durable polymer
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Recent Examples of negotiate
The deal was negotiated by Neon’s Sarah Colvin, VP of Acquisitions, and Paula Paizes from Pressman Film and Recorded Picture Company’s Ivan Kelava on behalf of the filmmakers.
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
Unless prior to the sale the bankruptcy trustee negotiates with the LLC managers to admit the purchaser, the purchaser at the judicial sale will not be anything more than an assignee of the distributional interest as was the result in this case.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Octagon, which the Pac-12 hired in an advisory role back in November, helped negotiate the 2025 deals.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
Unless prior to the sale the bankruptcy trustee negotiates with the LLC managers to admit the purchaser, the purchaser at the judicial sale will not be anything more than an assignee of the distributional interest as was the result in this case.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Octagon, which the Pac-12 hired in an advisory role back in November, helped negotiate the 2025 deals.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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
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But the large open kitchen that takes up most of the room is the same—with cooks’ stations encircling a central vent that’s dramatically cantilevered, like the funnel of a cruise ship—as is the seating, much of it arranged around a sweeping U-shaped counter.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
4 May 2025
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Gaps in its provenance, especially around World War II, resulted in the im Kinsky auction house working to arrange a settlement between the consignor, a private Austrian citizen, and the heirs of the Lieser family for a share of the sale.—
Karen K. Ho for ARTnews,
Robb Report,
2 May 2025
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The two brands managed just 917,598 sales in 2024, versus 1,343,959 in 2019, according to S&P Global Mobility.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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In the one and only trial run, conducted in 1987, emergency squads managed to erect only a fraction of the necessary infrastructure.—
Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
The Dial,
24 Apr. 2025
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The book’s vivid digital art, collaged from her own photographs and manipulated in Photoshop, helped children connect with science and nature in new ways.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Meaning, that European standards of living or dressing were never truly embraced or replicated but rather adopted and manipulated.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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But the way Yamamoto was dealing, the lack of run support posed little problem.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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In order to ease opposition to the bill, Parker said that several sections dealing mostly with a study of natural gas usage and other energy topics were removed ahead of Thursday’s debate.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
2 May 2025
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Part of the appeal was that the technique is fairly intuitive—paint the base color, then dab a textured sponge into the second color and blot—and technically, there’s no wrong way to execute it.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Florida has executed Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson for the shooting deaths of his girlfriend and her three children despite a letter from 129 veterans arguing that Hutchinson's mind was a casualty of war.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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The events will conclude with the beginning of the Novemdiales, a symbolic and procedural period of nine days of prayer, mourning and remembrance.—
Gabriele Regalbuto,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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This Wedding Banquet concludes with a scene of Angela, Lee, Min, and Chris jointly raising two children, the kid Angela had after a drunken fling with Chris and the one Lee had through the IVF that Min funded.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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If the highest and broadest tariffs are avoided, U.S. farmers will likely be able to handle the impacts with only modest discomfort.—
Adam A. Millsap,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The writers delivered a masterclass in how to handle the unforeseen death of a central character, then did a superb job navigating not only Dan’s heartbreak, but his conflicted feelings about moving on with Louise.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
24 Apr. 2025
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They are engineered through intentional, repeatable practices that rewire how people are seen, heard, and valued at every level of the system.—
Mary Hemphill, PhD,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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As in the 2003 film, the events are purposefully engineered by occult entities to test the bonds of blood.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Negotiate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiate. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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