- past participle of bide.
bid
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Sources have told BBC Sport that a bid has been made by Liverpool, but the Reds and Crystal Palace have denied this is the case.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
From next year, Europe's biggest economy is set to join many other countries by levying a tax on sugary drinks in a bid to raise funds to support its under-pressure health system.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
“I was all in, but then it got into the bid process. And I was still all in, and I just said, ‘I’m gonna get this team,’” Ballmer said on a podcast in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Last week, a judge delayed Google’s $10 million bid for digital archives from now-defunct Spirit Airlines that would include about 100 million emails, personnel records and Microsoft Teams messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
I made my first bid for escape when I was eleven.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Five of the 11 have either already lost primaries or announced their retirements, while the other six are plowing ahead with reelection bids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The watch, made this year, has more than a dozen bids on Loupe This, for as high as $10,500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ballmer, like Iger, had come up short in earlier bids for teams, and wasn’t going to let it happen again with the Clippers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Its new owner again put it up for auction in 2023 though it did not sell as bids did not meet the minimum value set.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“He bids me praise him daily, and so I do.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
It is a bad time for Carse to put himself out of the picture.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
We model recessions, drawdowns and bad decades with rigor and sophistication.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
His unpredictability complicates Prime Minister Mark Carney’s negotiating stance, but he also provides a useful foil, a kind of bad cop for which Carney can offer his more measured good cop approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
As Tara Sell, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Slate, “We’re in a bad spot right now.”
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Rue and I silently bemoan our bad luck and turn to face her.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The royals packed their suitcases, bade farewell to the palace staff, and climbed into an armored Mercedes that drove them to a nearby rail station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
White House officials bade farewell on Thursday to one of the two jets that have been used to transport US presidents for more than 30 years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood said it had been a "privilege and honour" to have been welcomed into viewers' homes for 28 years, as she bade an emotional farewell to BBC Breakfast.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
He wasn’t ready for Catherine O’Hara to go, nor Rob Reiner, who bade Idle a poignant farewell at a recent L.A. party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
Now he dismounted and bade Shadowfax return to his stable.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
When and if you are bidden to the journey by a POC who has granted you a brief visit to the darker side of human nature, explore safely.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020
Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, and many others may have bidden the show farewell, but Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and, yes, Ice-T are killing it these days.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2014
In the U.N. majority's eyes, the U.S. action seemed to provide a prima-facie case of the kind of direct intervention that has long been for bidden by international law.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no suggestion of the intimidated, the vanquished or the bidden about Konrad Adenauer's visit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Haldir had bidden them farewell and gone back again to the fences of the North, where great watch was now kept since the tidings of Moria that the Company had brought.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lakers sold at a record price for a North American sports franchise, although industry analysts have said a competitive bidding process likely would have resulted in an even higher sale price.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Some who believe Kushner and Iger got caught up in the moment and overpaid point to the bidding war with Comcast for 21st Century Fox that Iger won for Disney in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently changed the rules for public contracts so that companies bidding for them have to show how they will create jobs and training opportunities.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Leases were granted through competitive bonus bidding with a cash payment at closing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Although, this reporter has not quite figured out the strategy of members of the same household bidding against each other.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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