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

My dad had a never-ending parley with pirates, but I would break the cycle “Hacker!” my brother muttered behind me.

From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022

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

Then he raised his empty hand, palm outward in token of parley.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

The following Sunday was spent in further parleys.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson

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

If he parleyed with her Helen might awake to his desperate attempt.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

France and Germany had done most of the parleying.

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