tiring

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Tiring of the losses, in 2021 Softbank sold 80% of the company to several Hyundai affiliates for $1.1 billion.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

Tiring of the instability that continued for a year, Colorado defected to the Big 12 in July.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Tiring of the fact that no one wanted to buy albums of experimental American primitive guitar music, but they bought White Christmas every year, John Fahey recorded an album of Christmas instrumentals.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019

Tiring of that gig, they returned to Los Angeles and eventually got a record deal and a new name: the Jazz Crusaders.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2015

Tiring of field and flock, in 1768 he moved to Edinburgh, where he founded a successful business producing sal ammoniac from coal soot, and busied himself with various scientific pursuits.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson