ante
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Google in May upped the ante by announcing plans to sell its chips directly to customers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
But he says they have upped the ante, and have started booking these seminars at steakhouses.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026
"Even in a best case, there will be no neat and clean return to the status quo ante," IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
Brady upped the ante after Sports Illustrated playfully asked how many WWE wrestlers it would take to sack him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing ante
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: ante, anti
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