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[bahyd] / baɪd /


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Investors may bide their time until there are more concrete details about SpaceX’s financials.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

De Zerbi may prefer to bide his time and sit tight as opposed to taking on a salvage operation.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

“I have everything prepped for the price raise, but I haven’t implemented it because I’m still trying to bide my time to see what happens,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 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

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

Now, as Lindy Chamberlain did before her, Kathleen Folbigg bides her time in jail, awaiting the outcome of the petition and a recent hearing in the NSW Court of Appeal.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2021

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

She bides her time when like the prodigal, he will surely return, perhaps mentally and morally purified and a wiser, if a sadder man.

From The Colored Girl Beautiful by E. Azalia Hackley

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

Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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

Moving at the snail’s pace that is the norm above 26,000 feet, the throng labored up the Hillary Step one by one, while I nervously bided my time.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Ryanair’s move to lower capacity in off-peak winter periods could also bode well, which the company expects the broader industry to do too, the analysts add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Still, the Evercore team think that investors’ desire to continue betting on the AI boom may bode ill for some of those stocks that have been struggling of late.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 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

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

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

His wife, meanwhile, had joined the board of Anglia Television which, in 1994, was the subject of a takeover bid.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Intesa Sanpaolo increased its takeover bid for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena to 31.4 billion euros.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The coup bid and a corruption probe against Flavio Bolsonaro did little to sway voters fed up with crime, violence and the battle to make ends meet in Latin America's biggest economy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Bonds may receive a bid later in 2027, when the stock market slide eventually encourages a move into havens, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

He bid Lazlo leave the crate, but Lazlo refused.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Meanwhile, Marset has been biding his time in jail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

But Musetti proved a silent assassin here, biding his time and making few mistakes when the opportunities arrived.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

For now, analysts say Baku is biding its time.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

I sensed he was looking through me and not at me, as if he had decided I wasn’t his type and was biding his time until the bell rang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

The Army sits yet in the Town, waiting & biding for we know not what.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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