double-deal

Example Sentences

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Last week, the Georgia Democratic party and several not-for-profit advocacy groups called on Kemp to resign as secretary of state so he could run for governor free of suspicion that he might double-deal on his own behalf.

From The Guardian

But Wasserman repeatedly refused to be drawn on whether LA would entertain a 2024-2028 double-deal with rival Paris, stating that such a move remained hypothetical.

From Reuters

It was not Hamilton’s “zealous” persuasion that tipped the House vote toward Thomas Jefferson; it was Jefferson’s backroom deals and favors that bought off the Federalists and turned the election around. Burr refused to double-deal.

From Washington Post

The popular narrative is that Goldman uses its privileged trading position in capital markets to double-deal, favouring some clients more than others, but above all favouring itself; that it sneakily sought to profit from the crash; that its alumni in high places helped it manipulate the bail-out; that it contributed to the global fiscal crisis by helping Greece and other countries mask their debt; and so on.

From Economist

Around a 1914 map of Europe, three to seven players representing different countries try to deal and double-deal their way to control of the Continent, using fleets, armies and entangling alliances.

From Time Magazine Archive