- present participle of negotiate.
negotiating
Example Sentences
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“We’re not negotiating with them, we are going to have something one way or another, it’ll happen soon,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"As head of the Ukrainian negotiating team, I confirm that the Ukrainian side is honouring its commitments," he wrote on Facebook.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Both are seasoned veterans of political confrontations, capable of negotiating but reluctant to make concessions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The commenter had spent considerable time walking delivery workers through specialty aisles and negotiating alternatives, an especially frustrating undertaking when dietary restrictions were involved.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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