parley

By that standard President Trump’s Beijing parley with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week was a success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025

Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

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

"H you dream that, why would you seek to hold me back? Is it because of what Stannis said at the parley?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

For no reason under the sun they were afraid of him; perhaps they thought he resented their parleys with the parrot.

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean

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

There the colonel and his men halted, and he parleyed with the people.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

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

After three months of mutually suspicious parleying, often held together only by the unflagging good temper of U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lange's persistent refusal, after months of parleying, had won the admiration of his fellow Scandinavians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Together they spent a good hour brushing and twisting and parleying as if I weren’t even in the room.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly