strike a bargain
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WaFd was able to strike a bargain in its all-stock purchase of Luther Burbank.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Thus they strike a bargain, pretending to court so that the ladies will back off and the eligible men will try to win Daphne away from him.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2020
But many on both sides of the English Channel assumed the pandemic that has pummeled Britain and the continent might allow for more time to strike a bargain.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2020
But what Liu thinks she knows and what’s actually true start to deviate as the two characters seek to strike a bargain.
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020
Once I tell him, he is going to try to strike a bargain, and faerie bargains seldom favor the mortal.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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