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Dina Powell McCormick, who as president of Meta Platforms oversees its AI-infrastructure operations, said at the WSJ Tech conference Wednesday night that the company had already found one incoming governor prepared to parley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Sadat was assassinated in October 1981, a scant three years after that historic parley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025

After the Twitter tango exchange, Falck reached out to his old friend Shah to see if he and their bosses would be amenable to a parley.

From The Verge ● Nov. 4, 2021

When sufficient forces arrived—variously estimated at 125–300 men—white sheriff Columbus Nash summoned black organizer Levi Allen for a parley.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

And so when the rulers of Rome sought to parley with Sextus Pompeius, he demanded they do so thus: each party situated upon a floating platform, shouting to each other across the waves.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Last February, after multiple military parleys, Indian and Chinese troops completed a pullout from a lake area in Ladakh.

From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022

Whereas posts on Twitter are called tweets, on Parler they are known as "parleys."

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2021

There are meals of carne asada and manioc soup; parleys over endless rounds of yerba maté; social scandals that erupt at horse races; deadly tropical fevers; and red dust, relentless sun, and clouds of mosquitoes.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

Middle Eastern Christians have no army of their own, no government that represents them in world capitals, no voice in international parleys that have a bearing on their fate.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2015

He then proceeded to Penobscot resolved to put an end, if possible, to the parleys that the savages had been holding with the English and to incite them to renew the war.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond

The tectonic buzz and growl of a didgeridoo, played with athletic skill by Harry Wilson, parleyed with the music, then settled beneath it like bedrock.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019

For her guides across the universe, Reid gets three masters of space and time: the first is played by Mindy Kaling, who parleyed the sitcom she created into multiple book deals and a growing empire.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2018

He parleyed that experience into an underdog run for the U.S.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2016

A couple of winners parleyed their F-I-F-T-E-E-N minutes of fame into writing training books for aspiring champions: A Champion's Guide to Success in Spelling Bees and How to Spell Like a Champ.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2012

Sure it is, For oft I've parleyed with him when at times I've brought the game up to his master's hall.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)

A comeback means nothing without the proper follow-through; it only officially reaches completion when the party in question cements their newfound legitimacy by parleying it into a more protracted stretch of success.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2017

And, not that I’m complaining, the PS4 and Xbox One are basically cheap midrange PCs, parleying the lingua franca of a decades-old gaming paradigm interface-wise.

From Time ● Nov. 26, 2014

Right after the elections, the L.D.P. announced that it would select a new leader by ballot rather than through the kind of back-room parleying that brought Noboru Takeshita and Sousuke Uno to power.

From Time Magazine Archive

France and Germany had done most of the parleying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë