parley
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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
Sadat was assassinated in October 1981, a scant three years after that historic parley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025
Optional garnishes: parley, sliced lemon and/or save a few whole shrimp to place on top when serving.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024
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
Jon Snow met them on the kingsroad half a league south of Mole’s Town, before they could turn up at Castle Black, claim guest right, or call for parley.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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 Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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
At the Mint, as at the general post-office, the Versaillese director and principal employés had first parleyed, then made off.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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
Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho have spent more than 45 hours parleying in Paris during the past month, trying to salvage last January's Indochina cease-fire agreement.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After three months of mutually suspicious parleying, often held together only by the unflagging good temper of U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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