- past participle of bide.
bid
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In a bid to raise awareness of EDS, she plans to duet with 1960s singer Brian Hyland outside Downing Street, performing his hit Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Walter and his partners won the bidding at $2.15 billion, well above the $1.6 billion runner-up bid of Soon-Shiong and Cohen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The WSJ Leadership Institute’s Megan Graham reports for the newsletter on a new bid to encourage radio advertising:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Liverpool have had an improved bid of £60m for winger Yankuba Minteh rejected by Brighton.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I was disappointed when he bid us good night and headed for the front door.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Burgas and Sofia progressed to the final stage of the selection process following the initial bids, which also included Varna and Plovdiv.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The contract expired this summer, with the CIF receiving bids from several organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Bezos has reportedly explored previous bids for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders, but decided against pursuing either deal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The firm, which bought Aevex in 2020, hired Jefferies in late 2023 to solicit bids for sale, a person familiar with the matter said, but a deal never materialized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“There were no bids in the market for anything,” said Danny.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The 27-year-old believes she has lived with the condition since she was 12 and said her health became so bad that she needed life support after becoming unable to eat, walk or speak.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The trade inspired complaints that the team’s wealth was bad for the game, inspiring headlines such as this from the New Yorker: “Did the Dodgers Ruin Baseball?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But that’s leading some locals to say, “It’s great that it’s here. It’s kind of bad that we’re the guinea pigs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
You can blame the rest of us for not stopping it before it got this bad.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
We sawed pine planks while the big blue horseflies a privy draws plagued us bad.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The royals packed their suitcases, bade farewell to the palace staff, and climbed into an armored Mercedes that drove them to a nearby rail station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
On Thursday, White House officials bade farewell to one of the two heavily modified Boeing 747s that have transported US presidents for decades, which fueled speculation that the new jet would be unveiled imminently.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
He wasn’t ready for Catherine O’Hara to go, nor Rob Reiner, who bade Idle a poignant farewell at a recent L.A. party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
Both are alarmed by the sudden reappearance of a Frenchman nicknamed Beast, to whom they’d each bade goodbye years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
He bade me sit, which I did, and we again expressed our mutual pleasure at our reunion, following which he asked after my fortunes, inquiring how long I had been at Norfolk.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
When and if you are bidden to the journey by a POC who has granted you a brief visit to the darker side of human nature, explore safely.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020
Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, and many others may have bidden the show farewell, but Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and, yes, Ice-T are killing it these days.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2014
Hallowed by custom on many a U. S. campus are those annual rites to which prospective football material from nearby high schools is bidden to be entertained, inspected and secured.
From Time Magazine Archive
Newshawk Perkins did as bidden, and had his picture taken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gawaine observed sarcastically: “It will be safe enough for you, my mannie. We ken the King has bidden Lancelot not hurt ye.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Leases were granted through competitive bonus bidding with a cash payment at closing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Hunt is bidding for a third gold medal in Birmingham following victories in the 100m and 200m, while Asher-Smith is seeking a seventh European gold overall.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Mark Cuban had bowed out of the bidding, believing the Dodgers were not worth even $1 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But even some of the grants slated to fund more traditional human rights projects skirt federal requirements for competitive bidding that are meant to deter waste, fraud and abuse.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
His urgent bidding sounded again in my mind.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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