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Do you feel like you’ve upped the ante —

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

And when it counted most, Williams upped the ante, using her booming serve to save a match point and force a deciding set.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Google in May upped the ante by announcing plans to sell its chips directly to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

But he says they have upped the ante, and have started booking these seminars at steakhouses.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

I’m going to have to up the ante.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Barea, who as Bad Bunny rightly pointed out, “fue campeón antes que LeBron.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

The stakes were low, with antes ranging from $5 to $20, because the students were on tight budgets.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

If he hits a home run you take the whole thing and everyone antes again.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2013

Quite clearly, verbal antes are clearly being upped on both sides of the Atlantic in what remains very high stakes legal action.

From Time ● Jul. 6, 2011

Rocin is a Spanish word that means "nag" or "workhorse"; and antes means "before."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

When Strug badly injured her ankle on a failed vault, and then anted up for another go, viewers cheered.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2021

Outlook: The Raptors did not do much in terms of adding talent from outside the organization this off-season, but they anted up a combined $165 million to retain Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017

To spice things up, each anted up $100 to go to whoever could skip the ball across the water - like a flat stone - and onto the putting surface.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2016

And soon enough, Farris and Dan Wilks, brothers whose fracking services business had transformed them into billionaires, and their wives anted up $15 million.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2016

“I w anted to ask you about what happened,” I say.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

And we anteed up a hundred  In the hands of Deacon Kedge For to be divided the follerin' Fo'th  'Mongst the boys that kep' the pledge.

From Poems by John Hay

"And did the man lose his horses entirely?" asked Flood, who had anteed up his last bean and joined us.

From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

This may affect the enthusiasm of San Francisco or New York for anteing up again.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the past month, more than 2,000 people a day have been anteing up $10 each to see Wynn's collection of 20 paintings, from Degas to Picasso.

From Time Magazine Archive

Copley and Kroc covered half the festival's budgeted cost by anteing up $500,000 and $1 million respectively.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even after anteing up $400 million to the Community budget this year, Greece should come out ahead by more than $200 million, thanks to such perks as $184 million from the E.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cuthbert's $50 anteing chip was in the middle of the table.

From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen