How to Use megadeal in a Sentence

megadeal

noun
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  • Smith is in the midst of an eight-year, $97.6 million megadeal.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 8 May 2018
  • Instead this megadeal is best seen as a Hail Mary pass.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2016
  • But that doesn’t mean O’Day is planning to pull the trigger on a megadeal to please Wall Street.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 20 Nov. 2019
  • In all, megadeals getting the thumbs down this year are worth about $440 billion.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • He was hit on day one with a megadeal of epic proportions.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • Is the change in cast enough to revive a potential megadeal?
    — Kyle Goon, Orange County Register, 6 June 2019
  • The 49ers traded a second-round pick to the Chiefs and signed Ford to a five-year megadeal in March to help fix their pass-rush woes.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The sale is the most recent megadeal to have closed in the Los Angeles area in recent months.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 11 May 2018
  • That isn’t good for the prospects of this tech megadeal, and should bring a chill to the broader outlook for global deal-making.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • With so much cash to invest, and no growth in the pool of professionals to invest it, a new era of megadeals could be in the cards.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The Orioles countered with such megadeals as signing free-agent lefty Randy Wolf.
    — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 18 June 2019
  • Ramirez’s megadeal stands as the third-largest contract in Red Sox history, even though it was signed more than two decades ago.
    — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This is the fifth megadeal in the telecommunications industry in the past two years.
    — Sean Donahue, WIRED, 29 July 1998
  • None of them are vying for the types of megadeals that have turned the Harper and Machado sweepstakes into a game of chicken.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Instead, Woodward landed Kelly, who is likely to be the next coach in line for a megadeal.
    — Ralph D. Russo, Chron, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Since then, a pipeline has filled with megadeals awaiting the case’s outcome, which the judge presiding over the fight has said will come in less than two weeks.
    — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Jackson, who’s signed through the 2022 season, is also in line for a potential megadeal.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The megadeal, sources say, could be worth as much as $231 million with bonuses and escalators.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 July 2022
  • The Airbus-Bombardier tie-up is much more limited in nature than that megadeal.
    — Robert Wall, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The shares, previously down almost a fifth this year, rose Wednesday as fears of a rights issue to fund the megadeal lifted.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The previous summer, O’Reilly and Thompson were traded for each other in a megadeal.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Olson quickly signed a megadeal with Atlanta worth $168 million over eight years.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Mack is entering the second year of his nine-figure megadeal and is under contract through 2024.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
  • With a franchise tag or a megadeal extension, that could nearly double next year.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2022
  • This setup could trim the profits Viridium gets from this first German megadeal.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • Devers’s megadeal is the most expensive contract ever doled out by the Red Sox.
    — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But what the Cuban outfielder couldn't know was that his megadeal would prevent him from realizing the rest of his dream: playing in the major leagues.
    — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • If Microsoft cannot get the deal approved, other tech behemoths will be less likely to be able to force a megadeal through.
    — David McCabe, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • By that point, with the NFL’s new media rights deals in place, Watson could be in line for a second megadeal worth well over $50 million annually.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2021
  • Thome played just three seasons with the Phillies after signing what was then considered a megadeal of $85 million over six seasons.
    — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 24 Jan. 2018

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