How to Use counteroffer in a Sentence

counteroffer

noun
  • He turned down the deal and came back with a counteroffer asking for more money.
  • Democrats didn't say what's in their counteroffer.
    — Garrett Downs,justin Papp, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
  • His team screens all bids and sends counteroffers if the initial sum is too low.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 June 2025
  • Collins said the next step is for Democrats to make a new counteroffer.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • So the companies have about a month to give us a counteroffer.
    — ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There is no guarantee a counteroffer will emerge in the go-shop process.
    — Sara Fischer, Axios, 30 July 2024
  • Know when—and how—to make a counteroffer Your first instinct should not be to change their mind.
    — Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The village reached out to Agape with a counteroffer in late March.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Now, the original deadline for that counteroffer had come and gone.
    — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The Spurs, though, shot it down without making a counteroffer.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
  • The union rejected the board’s counteroffer and threatened a strike.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Berlin made counteroffers in an attempt to keep the company in the country.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Now, Missouri is making its own counteroffer to keep the Chiefs in place.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
  • The next day, our buyer’s agent sent an email and text message requesting the counteroffer.
    — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • But their counteroffer to the President's plan is a sham -- based on three faulty premises.
    — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • The president has put a counteroffer on the table that moved by half a trillion dollars.
    — ABC News, 30 May 2021
  • The counteroffer from Ford appears to preserve a five-day workweek.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Let the other side make the first suggestion, then present a counteroffer with a lower number.
    — Staff, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The counteroffer was rejected, and the workers prepared for the worst.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The drugmaker made a counteroffer of up to $9 billion.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Netflix has four days to make a counteroffer in the event Paramount puts forward a higher bid.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Democrats on Wednesday were waiting for a Mnuchin counteroffer.
    — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Each party has one chance for a counteroffer, to avoid the back-and-forth bargaining found on competing sites.
    — Wendy Fawthrop, Orange County Register, 30 May 2017
  • His counteroffer was for 4% of the company before the three settled on 5% and made a deal.
    — Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Biden must—and can—make a counteroffer of decency, not only in public life but in the lives of all citizens.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2021
  • No word yet if the 11-year-old has taken the Pirates’ deal or proposed a counteroffer.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Anousha also wrote about the studios’ response to the writers’ dismissal of their counteroffers.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • One came from LaFayette first, and then Valley proposed a counteroffer.
    — al, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Buxton rejected the Twins' offer, and the team turned down his agent's counteroffer.
    — Christina Long, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • This time, Israel has agreed to send a delegation to go over the Hamas counteroffer.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 7 May 2024

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