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There's a limit on how long Iran can bide its time, however.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

Skaters bide their time in a peloton—before trying to break away from the bunch with a decisive burst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

She said the lieutenant governor’s role is typically a sleepy perch for politicians as they bide their time to run for higher office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026

The message to her is that if there isn’t anything good out there to buy, investors should just sit tight and be patient— such as bide time in T-bills.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

Riverrun sat athwart the Lannister supply lines, Jason Mallister pointed out; let them bide their time, denying Lord Tywin fresh levies and provisions while they strengthened their defenses and rested their weary troops.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Henry bides his time, watching other subjects closely before befriending Eleven.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

But if the host cell is lucky, maybe the virus simply settles into this cozy outpost—either going dormant or back-engineering its little genome into the host’s genome—and bides its time.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 14, 2021

But she still usually bides her time, letting other Justices have their say before homing in calmly, yet relentlessly, on weaknesses that she’s identified in an argument.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019

Fittingly, Philippe bides his time before getting to the chest-burster scene, and he teases us with the possibility that he might not even show it at all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

For never shall he see Its needed light again: Victorious Death there boastful bides, Twin Darkness his loud horror hides.

From Favourite Welsh Hymns Translated into English by Joseph Morris

For two-thirds of Sunday’s Long Beach Grand Prix, Alex Palou bided his time … waiting for the one break he needed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

That country, which once hid its strength and bided its time, has decided under Xi Jinping to “flex its muscles.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Newby toned it down and bided his time.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

Many bided time in a hardscrabble neighborhood, renamed “Little Haiti,” while working in car washes, restaurants and factories that produce goods for export to the United States.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

I stopped eating my meals there and bided my time.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

“With the MOF joining forces with the U.S. Treasury and vowing to intervene, even a slightly softer CPI report could bode well for USD/JPY bears,” Simpson adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Even if Raducanu is fit enough to play Ruzic, her disrupted preparation does not bode well for the rigours of a Grand Slam tournament.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

That just doesn’t bode well for the future — it’s paying off in the present too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Campaign strategists love to tout a military record, a blue-collar résumé, small-business ownership, and a life of family and faith, in part because they suggest qualities that bode well for a political leader.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

"Gravesend Dock. That doesn't bode well, does it?" said Belet.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Players and fans alike have taken the confidence of last season's Premier League title win - their first in 22 years - and are using it as the team start their bid to retain it.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Walter and his partners won the bidding at $2.15 billion, well above the $1.6 billion runner-up bid of Soon-Shiong and Cohen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The WSJ Leadership Institute’s Megan Graham reports for the newsletter on a new bid to encourage radio advertising:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Liverpool have had an improved bid of £60m for winger Yankuba Minteh rejected by Brighton.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

We waited and one day they came to bid us farewell, carrying their possessions, with their children trailing behind, all but the eldest, whom the tannery had claimed.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Now it seems the Spaniard was simply biding his time, patiently waiting for a full return to fitness in order to peak at the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Or, maybe, investors are just biding their time ahead of some real news later this week.

From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025

In the previously uncollected poems we find Heaney working out forms, responding to social occasions, sometimes fumbling or biding his time but always doing the digging with his pen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

USC coach Lincoln Riley was among those biding his time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

But, of course, it was my body, hungering, biding its time against the tyranny of my spirit.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez