bidding

Around the country, students who learn about the artwork in history classes are gearing up for school trips, while businesses are bidding to capitalise on some of the fervour.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Though studios are in bidding wars to fund his vision, Cregger is committed to drawing from his own anxieties and fears rather than the whims of executives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Around that time, Derwick Associates, the engineering firm that Betancourt founded with a cousin, received 12 government contracts, awarded without bidding, for a total of $5bn.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

City officials said the project’s final estimated cost was unknown, as was the timing for bidding and construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

In the morning Hattie told me about her share in the ball, bidding me to sit on a low stool while the family ate their breakfast.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

"Not only will we wipe out every potential influence on public biddings – we will also make the process much faster, much more efficient and totally accountable."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

In a 2013 email to dozens of senior staff at Siemens China, the manager, Cao Yong Sheng, pointed to a “huge gap between biddings and contracts,” and asked, “Where’s the gap going?”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

Peter reluctantly admitted that Mr. Lukach, when inclined, could use his prowess as a healer for darker biddings.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017

The latter are spectators, or proprietors, or individuals whose biddings are given from the rostrum by proxy.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt

His biddings were usually silent, accompanied by the elevation and fall of his cane, or by an abrupt nod of the head.'

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts