How to Use negotiation in a Sentence

negotiation

noun
  • We need a negotiation between the townspeople and mayor over the site of the new library.
  • The college president was against any negotiation with the students.
  • She is skilled at negotiation.
  • The negotiations are in such despair that the two sides cannot even agree on the basic state of play.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Here’s what all this means for the next few months of budget negotiations.
    Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2024
  • What is the latest on the Ravens’ negotiations with Jackson for a longterm deal?
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Every union in town came out in support of the WGA, both during negotiations and after the start of the strike.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 June 2023
  • The issue could come up again during the next round of negotiations.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The details of the negotiation haven't yet been released.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The deal took seven years and thousands of hours of hearings and negotiations to reach.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
  • He has been largely shut out of any negotiations with the teams since the veto override.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The state of those extension negotiations has been hard to pin down.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • In an arms-length negotiation, the tribe and BNSF reached an easement agreement in 1991.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The response included the SWAT team as well as the hostage negotiation team.
    Sheldon Gardner, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2023
  • But the negotiations on it, and here's the issue, those big companies are able to offer it.
    Stefan Becket, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The union plans to build on the formula in future negotiations.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Monday, Leclerc again spoke about the country’s price negotiations, the deadline of which is the end of January.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Marks said Bridges was not made aware of their plans until negotiations were just about complete.
    C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
  • Often the threat of a walkout is enough for negotiations to begin.
    Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The Bengals and Burrow are keeping a tight lid on the status of their contract negotiations.
    The Enquirer, 27 July 2023
  • The talks would mark the first time both Israeli officials and Hamas leaders joined the indirect negotiations since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
    Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Oak Lawn and its firefighters have agreed to a new contract after more than a year of negotiations.
    Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • Sources familiar with negotiations say the movie hasn’t been screened yet.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This breakdown isn’t the end, but does offer some signals about how more substantive negotiations could go in the weeks ahead.
    Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
  • His visit came as negotiations for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza appear to have stalled.
    Abby Sewell, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Battery plants are a major point of contention in the negotiations.
    Tom Krisher, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Money is a sticking point in climate-change negotiations around the world.
    Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 23 June 2023
  • Talks between Boeing and IAM broke down last week with no new negotiations planned.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Hamas has shown no inclination to change its stance on hostage and ceasefire negotiations.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Artificial intelligence has been and continues to be the big sticking point in these negotiations.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2024

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