negotiate
verb (used without object)
to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
was negotiating
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past progressiveof negotiate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The investors bidding on the Anthropic stake didn’t realize it, but Situational simultaneously was negotiating a very different deal with hedge funds Citadel and Millennium Management: the sale of the bulk of its stock portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Apparently, he didn’t understand the regime with which he was negotiating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
DeSantis didn’t say who Amazon was negotiating with.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
"When I was negotiating with Tony Blair all those years ago, I was clear that if you simply remove the hereditaries, you leave a purely nominated chamber," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Seems she was negotiating with a Mr. Tweedie—newly arrived from Baltimore.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
