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as in to arrange
to bring about through discussion and compromise
wanted to negotiate a higher salary before she accepted the job offer
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as in to manage
to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently
she's good at negotiating personality conflicts between coworkers
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as in to manipulate
to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
the prisoners negotiated their escape by using Morse code to tap messages to each other through the walls
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as in to deal
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase
told them I'd take $8,000 for the car and wasn't in the mood to negotiate
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as in to execute
to carry through (as a process) to completion
scores of experiments later, the chemists managed to negotiate the development of a more durable polymer
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Recent Examples of negotiate
The deal, negotiated over two years and approved by military prosecutors and the Pentagon’s senior official for Guantanamo in late July, stipulated life sentences without parole for Mohammed and two co-defendants.
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Ellen Knickmeyer and Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Newsom’s office will negotiate the budget with state lawmakers this spring.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
First is the question of with whom the Trump administration would negotiate such an acquisition.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
The appeals panel found that a defense secretary has the power to prevent a war court overseer from negotiating a plea deal as a general principle, just not retroactively.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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Ellen Knickmeyer and Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Newsom’s office will negotiate the budget with state lawmakers this spring.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
First is the question of with whom the Trump administration would negotiate such an acquisition.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
The appeals panel found that a defense secretary has the power to prevent a war court overseer from negotiating a plea deal as a general principle, just not retroactively.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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McGahn arranged a memo warning Trump the move could lead to his impeachment.Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
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One day before TikTok star Deborah Finck died of rare soft tissue cancer, her daughter Katerina arranged a meaningful memory.Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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Santos launched a partnership with two Chinese entities to build and manage Hofusan in 2015, creating the industrial park that now has deals to host 40 Chinese companies.David Culver, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
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But even many of the people who are dealing with some degree of the disorder, end up finding ways to cope and manage by adapting helpful tips and techniques that have often been suggested by a mental health professional.David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
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The raptors’ behavior underscores the complex relationship between fire and wildlife, revealing how some species adapt and even manipulate their surroundings to thrive.Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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China can gather data on Americans or manipulate the content on TikTok to shape U.S. opinion, the government argues.Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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The historic Los Angeles fires dealt another blow to local film crews who were already struggling to find work.Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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The north Charlotte mall’s sale has been dealt several blows following high-profile incidents leading to safety concerns and a swath of store closings like Apple and Buckle.Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 16 Jan. 2025
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Beginning in utero, development is a complex series of events that leads to the ability to execute increasingly complex tasks and to control actions and behaviors.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
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It has been widely reported that the President-elect plans to execute as many as 100 executive orders on a wide variety of issues during his first day in office next Monday.David Blackmon, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Biden's latest export controls have led some observers to conclude the government shares the growing sense that AGI is close.Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
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But most have concluded that justice will never be theirs, that the police have moved on to investigating crimes that receive more public attention, that they have been forgotten.Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
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Hanlon says Flexjet and other business jet operators successfully deal with TFRs and other challenges on a daily basis, and the company's operations team is set up to handle them.Doug Gollan, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Its departments handle border security, immigration detention, citizenship processing, airport security, and natural disasters, among other things.Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
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The model was the last large Rolls-Royce to debut before the outbreak of war, and the last engineered with significant input from Sir Henry Royce.Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
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Finally, though, wood is back in business in a versatile new form: mass timber, a sturdy, humane product engineered not from ever-scarcer old-growth hardwood trees but from much younger, softer cedar, Douglas fir, and (lately) eastern hemlock.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
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