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bidding

noun as in offering of money, services

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Raab’s boss was sold, and instructed her to “take the novel off the table” in a preemptive deal that would prevent other publishers from bidding.

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Norris, 49, is bidding for release from his life sentence after being jailed in 2012 for Stephen's murder.

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He is bidding to be released from prison on licence, 13 years after being handed a life sentence for murdering Stephen in 1993.

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While Hoover publicly proclaimed his FBI independent of politics, he sometimes did the bidding of presidents, including Nixon.

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Sure, the official said, but then he reminded me that bidding wars are not always at the major league level, for millions of dollars.

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