bidding
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The 28-year-old is bidding for her first title since completing the 'Sunshine Double' in March, when she won Indian Wells and the Miami Open back-to-back.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Noth, 71, who famously starred as Mr. Big in the hit HBO series, is bidding farewell to the one-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom abode more than three decades after purchasing it in 1994.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
A UK-only bidding competition will decide who builds the floating docks but Navantia UK, which owns sites in Fife and Belfast, is seen as a frontrunner.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
That obligation is expected to add $7 million a day to the cost of the $31 a share that Paramount agreed to pay Warner shareholders when it won the bidding war back in February.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Eril-Fane was bidding the queen farewell, and the mathematician and natural philosopher were with them, too.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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"Not only will we wipe out every potential influence on public biddings – we will also make the process much faster, much more efficient and totally accountable."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
In a 2013 email to dozens of senior staff at Siemens China, the manager, Cao Yong Sheng, pointed to a “huge gap between biddings and contracts,” and asked, “Where’s the gap going?”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Peter reluctantly admitted that Mr. Lukach, when inclined, could use his prowess as a healer for darker biddings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017
The latter are spectators, or proprietors, or individuals whose biddings are given from the rostrum by proxy.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
It was among his pleasant ways to attend book-sales, there to watch the biddings of persons on whose judgment he relied, and cut in as the contest was becoming critical.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton