Example Sentences

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The series came with less filter but more chaos and more drama than you may have bargained for – with arguably the biggest girl divide the villa has ever seen.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2025

Unions across a range of industries in the U.S. such as rail, healthcare have bargained for higher wages and benefits in a tight labor market and a high inflationary environment.

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2023

It would also leave railway workers, who have been working without a new contract since 2020, without improvements to pay and benefits that they have bargained for.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

The tentative deal marks the first time that railway carriers have bargained and reached an agreement over attendance policies that affect workers at three of the largest railway carriers — BNSF, Union Pacific and CSX.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

“That’s no kind of trade at all! If I hadn’t got me a deer this morning, what would you have bargained with then?”

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor