counteroffer

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Recent Examples of counteroffer At the same time, Anderson recruited Burkle as the heavy hitting investor behind a counteroffer to keep the team in Sacramento that ultimately fell through after Burkle pulled out. Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026 Warner gave Netflix four business days to come up with a counteroffer — but Netflix instead responded less than two hours later, declining to raise its proposal. Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026 Given four days to offer a counteroffer, Netflix ultimately decided to bow out. Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026 Netflix has four days to make a counteroffer in the event Paramount puts forward a higher bid. Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for counteroffer
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Noun
  • Iran rejected a cease-fire draft on Monday and submitted its own counterproposal.
    Tiago Ventura, Time, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Saratoga, Cupertino and Los Altos Hills introduced a counterproposal to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office’s newest contract offer on March 23.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Iran has given the US a new proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war that includes postponing nuclear negotiations, Axios reported, citing a US official and two people with knowledge of the matter.
    Jon Herskovitz, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Nothing can be finalized until at least 23 of the league’s 30 owners vote at next month’s Board of Governors meeting, and tweaks to the various proposals are still expected to be made along the way.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This offer will be extended to Spears on Monday, according to the district attorney’s office.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Terms of the offer were not immediately known.
    Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Paul Surguy, head of investment management and proposition at Kingswood Group, said the coming months will inevitably see significant movements up and down.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
  • That value proposition seems to be resonating.
    James Manso, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For years the owner, now 66, has watched tape, done his own player evaluations and sent observations and suggestions to DeCosta, mostly about players who might be available in later rounds — without exerting any actual decision-making power.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The report actually describes something that sounds like Google’s Magic Cue, which relies on Gemini to offer suggestions based on your activity.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026

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“Counteroffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counteroffer. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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