How to Use bargaining chip in a Sentence

bargaining chip

noun
  • Will teams push to use them as more of a bargaining chip to reduce the term or salary?
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Did the Mafia want a bargaining chip to help free a member from prison?
    — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Trade policy doesn’t need to be a bargaining chip that costs jobs.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In Congress, your vote is your bargaining chip.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • But for weeks, his own aides have insisted that tariffs were not a bargaining chip.
    — Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Now, China is using rare earths as a bargaining chip once more.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • He's used this as a bargaining chip with other foreign leaders.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Washington and its allies are sure to offer that prospect as a bargaining chip.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Trump also has suggested that the arms sales package could be a bargaining chip.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • So hitting a number, or reaching a goal, becomes a kind of bargaining chip.
    — Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The news also doesn't change Boeing's status as a key bargaining chip in trade talks.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Seifert said the missionaries were being held as a bargaining chip.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025
  • Russia has rejected the idea that Ukraine could use that land as a bargaining chip in any future talks.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Should Tina Peters remain behind bars or be used as a bargaining chip?
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But such a plan cannot succeed unless civilians are protected now, and access is no longer used as a bargaining chip.
    — David Miliband, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • For Democrats, the costs to families was getting tougher to justify as a bargaining chip.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Attackers can leverage these high stakes as a bargaining chip in ransomware attacks and force victims to pay or meet their demands.
    — Michelle Drolet, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Myung-gi then uses his own baby as a bargaining chip, threatening to drop her if Gi-hun approaches.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 28 June 2025
  • Some of the foreign aid disbursed in the second half of last year appears to have been straightforwardly treated as a bargaining chip.
    — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Threats like this could have been a bargaining chip or just Barkley being Barkley, saying whatever popped into his head.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • But the Olympics still represent a powerful bargaining chip for workers.
    — Jaimie Ding, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Tariffs have become a standing policy tool rather than a temporary bargaining chip.
    — Brian Delp, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Don't be surprised if Beijing and Washington use this impasse as a bargaining chip in tariff talks.
    — Dan Primack, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Though Cory lets the info slip to Celine as a bargaining chip, another informant spills the beans.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But buying the Breuer turned out to be a valuable projection of strength for Sotheby’s and a bargaining chip over its rivals.
    — Rachel Corbett, Curbed, 28 Nov. 2025
  • And Orlando has become the Rays’ newest bargaining chip.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • John Oliver is using kitchen equipment that used to belong to Red Lobster as a bargaining chip to get his face on a cake.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • In some cases, though, it's being used as a bargaining chip, with buyers and sellers negotiating who pays the buyer's fee.
    — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The economic well-being of low-income households in America has now become a bargaining chip.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • As such, the vouchers appeared to have become a bargaining chip in negotiations with drug companies over their pricing.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 10 May 2026

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