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bargain

[bahr-guhn] / ˈbɑr gən /




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Johnson’s main point: Missing from the bill is the right for college athletes to collectively bargain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Higher costs of living over the past several years have sent shoppers on an extended bargain hunt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“One of the biggest turnoffs in collectibles is a bargain bin.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The family also got Michiel, the young enslaved man who served as the governor’s assistant, in the troubling bargain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

She extended her hand to seal the bargain.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

But the FBI compiled emails, which ProPublica reviewed, that were suggestive of illegal bargains.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

"You find bargains, you buy the bargains, you end up with loads of bargains and you're a hoarder," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Many capital cases were negotiated as “plea bargains to life without parole on the express promise that this will provide the finality that the victims need most,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Pittsburgh is one of the leading retirement bargains among larger U.S. cities.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

I spent the day making bargains, and the next day, I had 340 zloty.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Hershey argued that the plaintiffs “got what they bargained for — delicious candy.”

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

The league institutes certain “max” salaries —collectively bargained with the players’ union—ensuring that teams are on a roughly level playing field as they court players and build rosters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"You curse and drive on to another petrol station. OK, you travel for 10km more than you bargained for, but that's not such a big problem," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Slate’s Alexander Sammon paid the lab a visit and learned more than he bargained for.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

I had forgotten that life, like a crab pot, catches a lot of trash you haven’t bargained for.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

And it’s happening right before everybody retreats to the bargaining table for the negotiation that will determine the future of the sport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

He has held off for now, viewing the move as a bargaining chip with China.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

After major league owners and players reach a new collective bargaining agreement, probably sometime next year, baseball is expected to invite bids for two expansion teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

While Kiritsis sought to use Hall’s life as a bargaining chip for prosecutorial immunity, he also portrayed himself as an underdog taking on powerful financial interests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Byrnes, who up to then had viewed the atomic bomb largely as an abstract device useful for bargaining with the Russians, would recall that Oppenheimer’s astonishing figures left him “thoroughly frightened.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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