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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

And I guess I’m curious about why this is done in the language of We’re tweaking, we’re doing tiny fixes, we’re restoring us to the status quo ex ante.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

The company last week upped the ante in the battle to develop fast and efficient AI chips by unveiling the eighth generation of TPUs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

At KLM Farms in Alturas, grower Jerry Mixon anted up and rolled the dice to save his ailing farm.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2019

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

Sefia bent over her work while the others anted up coins of varying sizes and degrees of cleanliness: loys from Deliene, caspers and angs from Everica, someone even had a single squint coin from Roku.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

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

This week investors were anteing $5,249,200 for the 198,083 K. & T. shares sold by the Kearneys.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen