Thesaurus results for DICKERED

dickered

verb

past tense of dicker

as in negotiated

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase they dickered over the price of the car for a few minutes

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StudioCanal Stories negotiated the rights to the book series.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
After some back-and-forth, the Disney streamer took it off the market with a straight-to-series order, which is still being negotiated.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

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Ski resorts hope to bounce back Paltry snow across the American West last winter dealt a crippling blow to resort towns whose economies depend heavily on tourism.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
These were poems that dealt directly with the execution of friends and associates of Wyatt’s, including Anne Boleyn.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

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Salary caps in the NFL, NBA and NHL, along with the luxury-tax system in MLB, are lawful because they’ve been collectively bargained.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026
The Jefferson County Education Association bargained the provisions after Evergreen became the district's third school shooting, following Columbine High School in 1999 and Deer Creek Middle School in 2010.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026

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Those definitions were haggled and pored over at the conventions, Tremper said, and are not set in stone, many of them changeable based on member feedback.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
But the two sides failed to bridge their remaining differences as negotiators haggled over the final details.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026

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The two of them together, just 17 months apart, shared playlists, bickered over where to stop during Apple CarPlay calls, pulled up beside me and faded away with silly faces, encapsulating 20 years of my life in my rearview mirror.

— Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026
King bickered with fans on social media.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026

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