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Raising the ante in any new fight would expose Iran’s infrastructure to attack when its economy is teetering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The two days of discussions by EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic in Beijing come just as France and Germany, the bloc's two biggest powers, threaten to up the ante.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Pollock added Eddie Hearn to his advisory team earlier this year and the boxing impresario upped the ante by claiming his new client was "a seven-figure player", whose current pay shocked him.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Plenty of industries, from aerospace to hairdressers, are regulated by what we call ex ante restrictions, basically the idea that if you can’t prove in advance its safe, you can’t do it or sell it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Let’s get down to basics, boy. If you don’t ante up, you won’t get any Thanksgiving dinner, and nobody will play Monopoly with you for a full week.”

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

The Gates Foundation was so impressed that the giant philanthropy bypassed its normal funding channels and anted up $10.2 million for large-scale tests that will include malaria monitoring.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 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

Every time his veterinarian friend came back and said he needed just a little more money before these Frankensteins dominated the cattle world, Giebel dutifully anted up.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen