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For someone who never held political office — a 1999 bid for San Francisco mayor was a notable flop — Reilly wielded considerable influence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

The 73-year-old Ohioan and veteran officeholder is staring down all of Democrats’ problems in his bid to return to the Senate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Nottingham Forest have submitted an improved £17.5m bid for Feyenoord's 20-year-old Dutch right-back Givairo Read.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

In a bid to unite the right before the convention, Flavio this week posted a video apologizing to Michelle, who quickly accepted the gesture of reconciliation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

I bid on a couple of things I knew I wouldn’t win, then bought a pretty notebook for Lorren, who loved pretty notebooks so much that she never wrote in them.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

One way SpaceX could attempt this is by using its “deep pockets” to make expensive bids at FCC spectrum auctions, according to a Morningstar report.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

In a case like this, experts said, the nonprofit’s board should solicit competitive bids from outside companies, and factor in price and quality to make sure the charity gets the best value.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Hilton insists his campaign is different from previous Republican bids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The Seagulls had two bids for the 19-year-old turned down last month but his transfer fee could rise to £50m with potential additional payments.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

It was the Council, too, which worked out the system of submitting bids for unusual jobs to be done.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The bad news is I've simply run out of time to get myself, and my toe, back into spikes.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The negotiations have been so bruising that bad blood has built up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

"It is very bad news," he told journalist.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Hulu’s “Thank You, Goodnight” charts the good and the bad of Bon Jovi’s 40-year career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Things that are difficult to pronounce, or obscure terms that Americans aren’t familiar with —those are bad code names.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Both are alarmed by the sudden reappearance of a Frenchman nicknamed Beast, to whom they’d each bade goodbye years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

With two blasts of its horn, MV Hebridean Isles bade farewell as it left the quay at Stornoway for a final time on Sunday, bound for Glasgow before it goes to the breakers.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

It was there that a bent, white-haired old woman, glaucous-blind in one eye, hobbled over to the star, and bade her to stop a while and talk.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

The Soviet Government had for bidden Soviet stations' rebroadcasting the speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

"One gets the impression she has bidden farewell to art."

From Time Magazine Archive

Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that, and to be bidden to “run away, dear” is still more trying to us.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The company could get aggressive at these auctions by not only collecting spectrum as a potential bargaining chip, but also by bidding up prices and raising the cost of business for its rivals, Zhu noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

Discovery in February after Paramount Skydance won a tense bidding war.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Strict agency rules have long required an open bidding process whenever possible to guard against waste, fraud and abuse.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Scaloni, 48, was bidding to become only the second manager in history to retain the trophy after overseeing Argentina's 2022 triumph in Qatar.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

‘I bent my thought upon him, bidding him to make haste; for yesterday he was far away in the south of this land. Swiftly may he bear me back again!’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien