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If the championship battle had any jeopardy remaining in it, that would certainly up the ante.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

A colleague of his, whose job at Anthropic is to lead research about steering and controlling future AI systems, upped the ante, estimating the extinction risk over the next decade is greater than 10%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Plenty of industries, from aerospace to hairdressers, are regulated by what we call ex ante restrictions, basically the idea that if you can’t prove in advance its safe, you can’t do it or sell it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

They were outbid six times during this “ordeal” and recognized that they needed to up the ante.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

As their demands increased, upping the ante, so to speak, Bloom’s temper threatened to flare.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Barea, who as Bad Bunny rightly pointed out, “fue campeón antes que LeBron.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

The stakes were low, with antes ranging from $5 to $20, because the students were on tight budgets.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

If he hits a home run you take the whole thing and everyone antes again.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2013

Quite clearly, verbal antes are clearly being upped on both sides of the Atlantic in what remains very high stakes legal action.

From Time ● Jul. 6, 2011

Rocin is a Spanish word that means "nag" or "workhorse"; and antes means "before."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

When Strug badly injured her ankle on a failed vault, and then anted up for another go, viewers cheered.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2021

Outlook: The Raptors did not do much in terms of adding talent from outside the organization this off-season, but they anted up a combined $165 million to retain Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017

To spice things up, each anted up $100 to go to whoever could skip the ball across the water - like a flat stone - and onto the putting surface.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2016

Nearly 300 Master of Business Administration students and alumni anted up for a three-day Texas Hold `em poker contest last weekend in hopes of hauling in a corner office.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2013

Sefia bent over her work while the others anted up coins of varying sizes and degrees of cleanliness: loys from Deliene, caspers and angs from Everica, someone even had a single squint coin from Roku.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

"And did the man lose his horses entirely?" asked Flood, who had anteed up his last bean and joined us.

From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

And we anteed up a hundred  In the hands of Deacon Kedge For to be divided the follerin' Fo'th  'Mongst the boys that kep' the pledge.

From Poems by John Hay

Even after anteing up $400 million to the Community budget this year, Greece should come out ahead by more than $200 million, thanks to such perks as $184 million from the E.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the past month, more than 2,000 people a day have been anteing up $10 each to see Wynn's collection of 20 paintings, from Degas to Picasso.

From Time Magazine Archive

This week investors were anteing $5,249,200 for the 198,083 K. & T. shares sold by the Kearneys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Copley and Kroc covered half the festival's budgeted cost by anteing up $500,000 and $1 million respectively.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cuthbert's $50 anteing chip was in the middle of the table.

From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen