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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Jeff Passan had the initial report of the Sox dealing for Bart.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
By this time, police believe, Brun had already begun dealing again.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of dealing

Verb

Iran and Oman have been negotiating new shipping routes through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has effectively closed since the start of the conflict.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Under the proposal which Iran and Oman have been negotiating for several days, ships entering the strait would use the route closest to Iran, under Tehran's coordination, sources said.

— Mark Osborne, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of negotiating

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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