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This debt doesn’t necessarily mean you are “trapped,” but you may have to bide your time to make sure the door doesn’t hit you — hard — on the way out.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

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

He would bide his time, make them think he was content to remain here . . . and then, when they had grown lax, he would be off again.

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

Anyone familiar with Gurnah’s work knows that he bides his time, withholding the meaning of a moment because his often-displaced characters don’t know how to express it — or can’t.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

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

“I ought to ’a’ showed you roun’, Miss Paddy, ’cos I knows where everythin’ bides.

From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page

Your aunt, for better or for worse, bided her time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 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

The Australian bided his time for a few laps, inching closer to the back of the Red Bull, before pulling off a clinical pass into Turn 14 on lap 14.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025

They could have bided their time until the borders eventually reopened or gone through legal channels to get us green cards before we left Iran, but that would have likely taken years.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

A recent Gallup poll shed light on what you are experiencing, and the results did not bode well for a generation of renters who would like to get their foot on the property ladder.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

“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

She said that the package "should bode well for sentiment and dovetails with our forecast that growth will pick up in the second half of the year".

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 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

It did not bode well that she had.

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

Its bid to join the bloc has long been on the back-burner, while its Western Balkan neighbours press ahead.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Since the summer, companies including Google have bid $10 million or more in exchange for old emails, operating data and a slew of other information from Spirit Airlines, which went bankrupt last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

This year, analysts say authorities have allowed Suu Kyi increasing -- albeit still extremely limited -- contact with the outside world in a bid to shake off their pariah status abroad.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Palisades ended Granada Hills’ three-peat bid with a 25-4.5 finals win last fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

“I know what I did was wrong, Mom,” I said in a bid to preempt whatever she had in mind.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

They seem to be biding their time in the hope that Mr. Trump fades away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Many supporters are biding their time until the next election.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 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

Rosaleen, on the other hand, was out here biding time till we got caught.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd