How to Use counteroffer in a Sentence

counteroffer

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  • He turned down the deal and came back with a counteroffer asking for more money.
  • Each party has one chance for a counteroffer, to avoid the back-and-forth bargaining found on competing sites.
    — Wendy Fawthrop, Orange County Register, 30 May 2017
  • That was the counteroffer that Hamas forwarded on Monday.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • Be fair to the boss in evaluating any resulting counteroffer.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Among the union's complaints: The counteroffer didn't make any mention of a pension or the union's plea for a shorter workweek.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
  • When his needs get biological, her counteroffer is marriage.
    — Robert Abele, latimes.com, 15 June 2017
  • Down the line, next steps would likely include a reasonable and competitive counteroffer to any offer Louisville were to make.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Still, the company is considering the proposal and could return with a counteroffer, the people said.
    — Soma Biswas, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The government has yet to table a counteroffer to union demands for increases of as high as 12 percent, and a deal is unlikely to be struck until next year.
    — Michael Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 28 Nov. 2017
  • At the time, Siemens had made a counteroffer for Alstom that included combining its train operations.
    — Aaron Kirchfeld, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • That still may not be enough to deter the Anbang Insurance Group of China and its co-investors from making a counteroffer — yet again.
    — Leslie Picker, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2016
  • Navigating appraisals, offers, counteroffers, and escrow while house shopping is most people's idea of actual torture.
    — Alexander Hardy, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2016
  • The village reached out to Agape with a counteroffer in late March.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2021
  • That’s the size of the GOP’s original counteroffer to Biden.
    — Sarah Hansen, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • So the companies have about a month to give us a counteroffer.
    — ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • His counteroffer was for 4% of the company before the three settled on 5% and made a deal.
    — Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The union rejected the board’s counteroffer and threatened a strike.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The counteroffer was rejected, and the workers prepared for the worst.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The Spurs, though, shot it down without making a counteroffer.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
  • The challenge for Xerox is to convince HP that a counteroffer makes sense.
    — Alex Webb | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • But their counteroffer to the President's plan is a sham -- based on three faulty premises.
    — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • The union expects to make counteroffers to Stellantis and GM soon.
    — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Berlin made counteroffers in an attempt to keep the company in the country.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Although Mnuchin had made a counteroffer of $1.6 trillion, the sides have been unable to broker a deal.
    — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • As Saudi airstrikes are one of the only counter measures holding back the Houthi push for Marib, the rebels' counteroffer has been a non-starter so far.
    — Nic Robertson, Nada Bashir and Charbel Mallo, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Russia made a counteroffer that the U.S. did not regard as serious, the White House has said.
    — Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • On Wednesday the union submitted a counteroffer to Ford, the person said.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • One came from LaFayette first, and then Valley proposed a counteroffer.
    — al, 14 Dec. 2022
  • With the GOP's nearly $1 trillion counteroffer to Pres.
    — Davone Morales, ABC News, 30 May 2021
  • This time, Israel has agreed to send a delegation to go over the Hamas counteroffer.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 7 May 2024

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