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The Briton had just crept back inside the world's top 300 after winning an ATP Challenger event in Colombia and admits it was a "bit painful" watching players at the pinnacle of the sport.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

We’ve done some of the discovery legwork for you so that you can skip right to the “being cool” bit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“I would argue all those rates of change are probably a bit too fast,” Samana said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

“That’s a little bit warm for this time of year, no doubt,” Westerink said, “but still not warm enough to sustain a hurricane or tropical storm.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Her voice goes up a bit at the end, like it’s a question.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

So he was to be bitted and bridled, it seemed, in the future.

From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward

“Well, have you bitted the poor fellow within,” said Mason, “that he can take his last ride under the curb of divinity, old gentleman?”

From The Spy Condensed for use in schools by J. Fenimore Cooper

They are vicious brutes as ever were bitted, and it makes my blood run cold sometimes to see their devilish antics when Mrs. Gerome insists on driving them.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

And for Hrothgar straightway then was bitted a horse, 1400 A wave-maned steed: and the wise of the princes Went stately his ways; and stepp'd out the man-troop, 82 The linden-board bearers.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

He scampers about in this way for about a year: then he is 'taken up;' that is, bitted, and backed by a 'dumb-jockey'—a cross of wood made for the purpose.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

"Why, there's for you; and there, and there!" said Sebastian, bitting back a great deal harder, and again and again, till Sir Toby came to the rescue of his friend.

From Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It is true, he was on the whole rather an innocent monster; and between bitting and bridling, coaxing and humouring, might have been made to pad on well enough.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

I have not seen a dozen coachmen, private or public, to whom my youngest child could not have given invaluable suggestions as to the bitting, harnessing, and handling of his cattle.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier

Hard-mouthed horses, when accompanied with great spirit, are objectionable, as they require peculiar bitting and the utmost vigilance.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas.

From South Sea Tales by Jack London