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bidding

[bid-ing] / ˈbɪd ɪŋ /




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Bidding is limited to firms owned by disabled veterans.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Bidding to succeed his former mentor in 1995, Jospin shocked many Socialists by claiming a "right of inventory" over Mitterrand's legacy -- a right to reassess a record that loyalists deemed sacrosanct.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Bidding on the contract opened Feb. 24 and is expected to end March 13.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Appeared in the November 11, 2025, print edition as 'The Bidding War for New York Refugees'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Yesterday, at the Bidding of Capt. Draper, I took Prince to spend his small Sum for Enlistment on a new Shirt and Breeches.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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