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“Everyone who’s involved on the commercial side of the art world is transacting on desire, for an object but also for an experience,” she said.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2017

In these cases the woman should deal with her husband, or the members of her family, the same as she would with strangers with whom she is transacting business.

From Business Hints for Men and Women by Calhoun, Alfred Rochefort

"He is transacting quite some business with you, isn't he?"

From The Rover Boys in New York Or, Saving their father's honor by Stratemeyer, Edward

He went home more than a year ago and is transacting his business as a sane man should.

From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard

While this is transacting, Couch orders Hancock to move up to the United-States Ford road, which he imagines to be threatened by the enemy; but the order is countermanded when scarcely begun.

From The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault