bid
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However, earlier this summer they made a £64m bid for Bournemouth's Alex Scott and were reportedly offered Arsenal midfielder Myles Lewis-Skelly.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
In a bid to win support from the U.S. and other Western countries, President Ahmed al-Sharaa pledged soon after taking power in late 2024 to cooperate with Grossi’s agency to clarify Syria’s past nuclear work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
His winning bid, a bargain next to housing prices elsewhere, was steep compared with what Baltimore’s vacant homes used to command.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Cambridge University graduate boldly stated her intention to take all four sprint titles this week in her bid to be "iconic".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Barnsley have turned down a series of bids in the region of £3m for forward Reyes Cleary as the Tykes want more for the 22-year-old.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The contract expired this summer, with the CIF receiving bids from several organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Defense Logistics Agency has already asked for bids to stockpile up to 403 tons of indium over three years — more than a third of a year’s global output.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Their statement quoted recent comments by Vucic listing what they needed to discuss, including the two countries' bids for European Union membership, and economic and energy cooperation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
‘My heart bids me go on,’ said Legolas.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
“As perverse as it sounds, a desperate employee isn’t bad for the employer,” says Eric M. VanEpps, an associate professor of marketing at Vanderbilt University and another one of the researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Pew Research Center released a report in 2024 showing that these so-called opt-in surveys did a particularly bad job of capturing the attitudes of adults under 30 and Latino adults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Interviewees told her that their respective estrangements were not necessarily good or bad.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
This is something which already happens routinely to avoid turbulence and bad weather so passengers are unlikely to notice.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Soul-Eaters, like half-glimpsed shadows in a bad dream.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The royals packed their suitcases, bade farewell to the palace staff, and climbed into an armored Mercedes that drove them to a nearby rail station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
White House officials bade farewell on Thursday to one of the two jets that have been used to transport US presidents for more than 30 years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Both are alarmed by the sudden reappearance of a Frenchman nicknamed Beast, to whom they’d each bade goodbye years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Earlier this week, Ms Yadav bade farewell to her job after 36 years of service, retiring as India's first female train driver.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
Then he bade them make a bed in the chamber and lay Faramir upon it and depart.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
When and if you are bidden to the journey by a POC who has granted you a brief visit to the darker side of human nature, explore safely.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020
Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, and many others may have bidden the show farewell, but Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and, yes, Ice-T are killing it these days.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2014
For bidden by law to set foot within the Third Republic, and normally resident at Manoir d'Anjou, Belgium, the Bourbon pretender to France's vacant throne turned up this week in Morocco.
From Time Magazine Archive
The three fathers, after 20 years, are hence bidden to a house party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ron stared around the room as though he had been bidden to memorize it, while Hermione’s eyes swiveled backward and forward from Harry to Lupin.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Alex Queen, a former Los Angeles resident, moved back to her native Baltimore after losing bidding war after bidding war for homes in California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
PlayOn Sports continues to expand its high school sports empire in California, winning the bidding for broadcast rights for state playoff games and state championships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But even some of the grants slated to fund more traditional human rights projects skirt federal requirements for competitive bidding that are meant to deter waste, fraud and abuse.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Companies bidding for government contracts are judged on a range of measures, including value for money and the extent to which they bring benefits to the local community.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
His urgent bidding sounded again in my mind.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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