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haggle

[hag-uhl] / ˈhæg əl /


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Emphasize that it would be better for them to be present — not only to help you, but also to haggle with shoppers and ensure their items are selling for prices they feel are appropriate.

From MarketWatch May 28, 2026

It’s an imperfect analogy, but a company can’t sell the U.S. military a missile and then haggle about acceptable targets.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

“Each piece represents a store we love, a lucky find or a successful haggle that ended with us carrying home something with history.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2026

In short: months and months of talking, as party leaders try to form a workable coalition and haggle over a government programme palatable to all sides.

From Barron's Oct. 29, 2025

You haggle like a crone with a codfish, Lord Snow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

In “Between Riverside and Crazy,” a Black man haggles over the concessions he’s being offered by his former employer, the New York Police Department, eight years after he was shot by a white cop.

From New York Times Jan. 14, 2023

He haggles with a supermarket cashier, admires the paved roads, poses with a power mower to impress a cousin back home.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2021

McGee notes that Washington often haggles as all sides try to cut a deal.

From Washington Times Jun. 1, 2020

The markets are always a necessary visit, and it helps that he speaks Cantonese and haggles for me.

From The Verge Dec. 15, 2017

And simply, on the score of a new hat needed, she keeps it back and haggles!

From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A white-haired man in a Tommy Bahama shirt amiably haggled two dollars off his peaches.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

He has haggled about the price, which makes my brother think it’s a legit offer.

From MarketWatch Nov. 10, 2025

As they haggled over the number of centrifuges Iran could build, they also defused potential crises.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2024

When he collected the sweets from the wholesaler, he noticed they were darker than unusual so he haggled with confectioner Joseph Neal and saved half a penny per pound.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2023

Throughout those days, while we scratched and haggled for our daily bread, I had a photograph of President Eisenhower for company in my kitchen house.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The corridors were packed with Chinese and foreign buyers haggling over prices, while shop owners touted products on live streams in front of glowing phone screens.

From Barron's Apr. 23, 2026

As it stands, the two sides are haggling over both money and the NFL’s vision for new measures that it believes would improve officiating quality.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

Car boot sales are full of customers haggling for the best deal, where you "price something for £1.50 but people want it for £1", traders have said.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

The haggling may also be part of it.

From MarketWatch Nov. 10, 2025

They begin haggling over a price like I've seen the women in jail do when someone has been able to smuggle in a thing from outside that everyone else wants.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman




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