How to Use fair/square deal in a Sentence

fair/square deal

noun
  • Some fans don’t like Muncy, but this is a very fair deal.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • So that's not going to end without a fair deal of blood.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For their part, the major studios have said their goal is to reach a fair deal.
    Anousha Sakoui, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
  • But until the actors and studios can reach a fair deal, all that the crews can do is wait.
    Sofía Tafich, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2023
  • If this sounds intriguing, just be prepared to spend a fair deal of cash on the turntable.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 June 2021
  • The weight and strength of the high-end ABS plastic cables are designed to withstand a fair deal of use.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Gadson maintains that guild members are ready to tough out a long work stoppage in their pursuit of a fair deal.
    William Earl, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • But Bungie has had a fair deal of success using copyright law as a legal cudgel against the makers of the cheats themselves.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Criterion Channel costs $10.99 per month, which is a fair deal since many of the available films are difficult to find elsewhere.
    Stacey Nguyen, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Black families report being forced to code-switch when trying to get a fair deal on buying or selling a home.
    Terri Huggins, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Woodcock proposes what is surely a fair deal: Schools should be able to purchase e-books outright, rather than having to rent them.
    Maria Bustillos, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Their demands seem unremarkable, even in an America where workers scratch and scrape to get a fair deal.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
  • All told, 58% of Americans believe Biden has done very little or only some vs. 40% who think he's accomplished a great or fair deal.
    Harry Enten, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In previous remarks at rallies, Walters has said the union will not accept going months without a fair deal, which was the case in 2019 when workers came close to walking off the job.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The Walsh–Biden agreement is a fair deal, arrived at through the proper procedures, and one that railroads and a majority of unions have accepted.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Ensuring that the farmers and workers in developing countries receive a fair deal for their work.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 26 Apr. 2023
  • These workers are often focused on getting a fair deal, which has been a struggle for service workers, in the US in particular, in recent decades.
    Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Like the release concert, the albums themselves show a fair deal of collaboration between the two musicians.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 14 July 2021
  • While Hollywood studios’ failure to strike a fair deal with writers and actors hasn’t caused any real pain for Netflix (yet), that’s not the case over at the platform’s broadcast network rivals.
    Vulture, 20 July 2023
  • We will not be manipulated by this cynical ploy to engineer an extension when the companies have had more than enough time to make a fair deal.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Our committee returns to the bargaining table ready to make a fair deal, knowing the unified WGA membership stands behind us and buoyed by the ongoing support of our union allies.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As a woody plant, bamboo also captures a fair deal of CO2 and grows extremely fast, meaning a pretty quick turnaround for the crop on top of environmental benefits.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The Wire creator David Simon, who negotiated with the studios to reach a fair deal for writers, says Hollywood execs have stuck to one playbook and tried to turn parts of the union against each other, causing division.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Instead of negotiating a fair deal, Rob [Manfred] canceled games.
    Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This is most important for small, local publishers and new entrants, who have no hope for negotiating a fair deal with the tech giants without an antitrust safe harbor.
    David Chavern, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The duo know that changing the music industry’s historically imbalanced deals for artists is a lofty goal, but one slightly ameliorated with each fair deal.
    Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
  • The settlement is estimated to cover about half of the actual financial damages customers have endured, but the plaintiffs describe it as a fair deal considering the risk of losing such a case.
    Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Sunshine Renewable Solutions decided to step into the sunlight, commencing their own sales to ensure homeowners received a fair deal.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • Antoine Belaieff, an expert in transportation policy at transit ticketing app Fairtiq, sees all of these alternative models as a way to get people back onto public transportation by offering them a fair deal.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2021

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