Thesaurus results for PALTERING

paltering

verb

present participle of palter

as in dealing

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase unwilling to palter over the price of the car

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Recent Examples of paltering Another subtype is paltering, where the models use a selective true statement to mislead the human. — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2025

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Verb

Had the technical stood, Clark would have been forced to sit out Tuesday’s matchup against the New York Liberty, dealing a significant blow to Indiana as the Fever continue their push through the season.

— Chantz Martin OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Irish police said at the time that the ⁠gang had ‌gone from dealing heroin and cocaine in Dublin in the 1990s to operating across Europe.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of dealing

Verb

Traffic through the waterway remains low and although Iran and Oman are negotiating over the waterway, there are no immediate signs of a deal.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
He may be entitled to dislike the Supreme Court’s answer but he is really not entitled to keep fidgeting with it as though a constitutional Supreme Court judgment were merely a negotiating position.

— Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of negotiating

Verb

This comes several days after Stanford football players created a campus chapter of the College Football Players Association, with the goal of collectively bargaining with the ACC.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 2 Aug. 2026
No deployment date has been set for Hyundai’s Korean plants at all, so the union is bargaining pre-emptively, trying to lock in protections before the humanoid robots show up rather than after.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026