bide
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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
"I'm trying to bide my time with it."
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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
I know I’m being watched, so I bide my time.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
It bides its time in the best of us, And well for him if he do not do That which the strength of him wants him to.
From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke
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
Having bided his time, downloaded the data and figured Fury out, Usyk saw his opening then kicked the door in towards victory.
From BBC ● May 19, 2024
Little did they realise that in our world, the black world, one could only survive if one played the fool, and bided his time.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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
The results should bode well for both investors’ and borrowers’ confidence in the financial system.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 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
What took place that day did not bode well for Clarkson or for Philadelphia.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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The British firm Linklaters nabbed three partners from Paul Weiss as part of a bid to expand in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
US President Donald Trump asked the Smithsonian Institution on Friday to install statues of George Washington, in his latest bid to reshape the treasured museum and research complex.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Alexander Zverev beat Karen Khachanov at the US Open to reach a third Grand Slam final in a row and continue his bid for a second major of the year.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Netflix shares, which closed Thursday $76.01, are down 39% over the past 12 months, a slide that began with its $83-billion bid for Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She was strong, willing, undemanding; and she had enough common sense to do what she was bid and ask no questions.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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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
For now, analysts say Baku is biding its time.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
And even some investors that have held back in recent weeks say they’re just biding their time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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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