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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

A legendary champion ups the ante with her return to the court at age 44.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

In essence, the neighboring sale upped the ante as far as Behar’s listing is concerned—and also encouraged her agents to start thinking about other ways they could prove the home’s potential to prospective buyers.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026

“We are not anticipating a restoration of the status quo ante on growth, employment, inflation, oil prices or gasoline prices given the dynamics of the conflict at this time,” he adds.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

“Which did you like best,” he asked, “the ante or the wild geese?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

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

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Occasionally, even, the doctor raked in a few "antes."

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell

The Temple ad antes, with Pillars of an unequal Magnitude.

From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Perrault, Claude

Chesterman was caution itself, playing out antes in niggardly fashion until he had a hand which put the law of probabilities strongly on his side.

From The Blood of the Conquerors by Fergusson, Harvey

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

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2021

Seattle and King County anted up for a hotline and clinic, the first local funding outside of San Francisco.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 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

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

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 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 Adams, Andy

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 Hay, John

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

The task force recommends that Washington pay 75% of construction costs over the next four years �some $2 billion�with the states anteing up the rest.

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

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

From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.