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"It feels a bit absurd," said shopper Echo Wang, 31, who works in marketing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Median monthly mortgage payments for buyers fell a bit last year, but have since risen again to around record levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican's foreign minister since 2014, said the news of the Pope's ill health was "a bit of a game changer", adding "it's going to make things a bit different".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The research to fix it is a bit unconventional.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Marcie offered parting words, but see you later came out like she was a bit disappointed.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

I thought that enough for the river, wid a fower fathom bottom; so, I’ve bitted it at that, an’ me an’ Jackson are a-sayin’ about clearin’ the cable range now.”

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend

Before the king was led his beautiful Cyprian steed, Favelle, gorgeously caparisoned, and bitted with gold, the saddle adorned with two little golden lions.

From With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Frances Nimmo Greene

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

The old Hindoo dreamed that he saw the human race led out to its varied fortune, and first he saw a man bitted and curbed, and the reins went back to an iron hand.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To which the answer is— "'The sow, deil tak her, 's ower the water, And at her back the Crawfords clatter; The Carrick couts are cowed and bitted.'"

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

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

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

Still no suspicion of the truth reached me that since I came to live with him my uncle had been bitting and breaking his tongue.

From The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller

Saxe, what man of yours is that who is bitting Grey Roland?

From The Justice of the King by Hamilton Drummond

Tishy was bitting off a loose end of thread, which gave her a determined and ferocious expression, but whether she could have seen anything or not the widow felt uncertain.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow