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Examples
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There has to be an element of realism in dealin with large corporate companies.
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Backman's "wheelin' dealin'" lifestyle lands him with a prison sentence, which is unexpectedly truncated at an eleventh hour Presidential pardon for a CIA plan.
The Broker digitaldoc 2006
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Backman's "wheelin' dealin'" lifestyle lands him with a prison sentence, which is unexpectedly truncated at an eleventh hour Presidential pardon for a CIA plan.
Archive 2006-04-01 smg58 2006
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I'd lots o 'dealin's with him afore ever I seed him, and I allers found him straight as a shingle.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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The next I see of him is a year later, in McKittrick, where he's runnin 'a real estate office an' dealin 'in oil lands.
The Long Chance 1918
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I've long suspected thet somebody livin 'right heah in the valley has been drivin' off cattle an 'dealin' with rustlers.
To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905
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Then she stays away herself an 'swills liquor an' has all kinds o 'dealin's an' takes no care o 'her own children.
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904
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Presenting the top three fist thumpin ', soul stirrin', limousine ridin ', jet flyin', kiss stealin ', wheelin' dealin ', son of a gun songs that go "woo"!
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"I'm thinkin '," he added, "he's been taen awa 'frae the evil to come -- frae seein' the terrible consequences o 'sic a saft way o' dealin 'wi' eternal trowth and wi 'perishin' men -- taen awa 'like Eli, whan he brak his neck at the ill news.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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We'd better straighten up and act like grownups, and I mean soon, or somethin 'bad is gonna happen, and its not going to discriminate between Red and Blue when it comes to dealin' out the big hurt.
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