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parley

[pahr-lee] / ˈpɑr li /


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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

But none of these arguments support the contention of the “Debate Me” Bros and their audience that everyone is equally qualified to parley over every topic.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2025

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

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

Guided by Christopher Gist, he proceeded to the forks of the Ohio, then to Logstown where parleys were held with the Indians, and later to Venango.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

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

The Captain shrewdly parleyed sufficiently to give Lieutenant Baker time to command—"Skedaddle."

From The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I by Theodore Wilder

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

She heard the voice of the Savage parleying with silence.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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