negotiating

present participle of negotiate
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Recent Examples of negotiating On Tinder alone, men dominate the active user base, which gives women more choice and negotiating power. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 Brown as the crafty Pauline is the true scene stealer, negotiating terms of terror herself. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025 Those were not negotiating tactics. Mark Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025 Ned and Mare end the season negotiating a first kiss in a scene where Gleeson and Frei tease out a sense of both genuine romance and interpersonal danger. Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 The company is also negotiating with a consortium of banks to provide a $6 billion loan. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025 The deal will include a sell-on of any future sale of the 22-year-old, and City have covered themselves by negotiating a buy-back clause. James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025 The airport Board of Directors approved the agreement before adjourning a special meeting called for the purpose of negotiating an agreement. Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2025 This is not the first standoff between UnitedHealthcare and an Ascension market negotiating close to the deadline. Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for negotiating
Verb
  • Around the country, arranging for housing is a relatively new and growing challenge for such PACE groups, which are funded through Medicaid and Medicare.
    Felice J. Freyer, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For many leaders, the most significant shift in leadership is not about managing bigger projects or larger teams.
    Matthew C. Meade, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Despite daunting market conditions, America’s youngest generation of adults is managing to break into the housing market in growing numbers.
    Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Was Prater manipulating evidence?
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One was based on hard-coding logical rules for categorizing inputs into symbols and then for manipulating those symbols to arrive at outputs.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And there is often an expectation of escapism in romance that precludes dealing realistically with money — or, for big media blockbusters, a cynical assumption that audiences won't enjoy a romcom which also takes the logistics of life seriously.
    Chelsea Fagan, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • There just aren’t many trades in the NFL as seismic as Dallas dealing Micah Parsons to Green Bay on the eve of the regular season.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Levy was executing the work of the business every day for 24 years.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • State lawmakers over the years have also charged the agency with executing a slew of smaller grants, including the $20 million in state funding approved in 2022 for Fay Beydoun and her nonprofit Global Link International now at the center of the attorney general office's probe.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Businesses can avoid antitrust scrutiny by collectively bargaining economic rules with employees’ unions.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The settlement resolved a complaint alleging the health center had illegally laid off more than 50 workers without bargaining with their union.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Best Friend Forever is handling world sales.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Anton is handling worldwide rights and co-repping North American rights with UTA Independent Film Group and Cinetic.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Kremlin rejected the allegation, stressing that Putin was not plotting against Washington.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The case became even more horrifying when he was accused of plotting to silence a key witness.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Negotiating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negotiating. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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