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“I am negotiating for what is, essentially, a used playing field,” Widget continues.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"I am negotiating for my release, so if we could stick to the topic -"

From Any Coincidence Is by Callahan, Daniel

Whenever I can get appointments with the people I am negotiating with.

From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel

Thank you very much, sir," he said, "but, as a matter of fact, I am negotiating a change into an Indian regiment.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine

I am negotiating a marriage between Raxa Mura and the sister of Xlunao, who is the chief of this village of Tanpaca.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander