hammer out
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Negotiations with Mexico and Canada tend to advance on parallel tracks before the three partners hammer out final details in the last stages of negotiations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Stock futures were falling on Sunday after tensions flared up between the U.S. and Iran even as the two sides met in Switzerland to hammer out a permanent peace deal.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
Iran, Britain, France, Russia, and China—to hammer out the 157 pages of the nuclear deal back in 2015.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026
Bonn is where government negotiators meet every June to hammer out technical details and narrow differences over global climate action before leaders tackle the bigger decisions at COP31.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
The details of a $45 million trade more or less agreed upon in February 2007 took several months to hammer out, and the trade didn’t go through until early May.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
