bidding
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Seagate Technology fell more than 9%, following a report that it was facing the prospect of a bidding contest to acquire a component maker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The 28-year-old is bidding for her first title since completing the 'Sunshine Double' in March, when she won Indian Wells and the Miami Open back-to-back.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Playing in the tournament for the first time in 11 years, the Serb, a 24-time Grand Slam champion, is bidding to win the China Open for a record-extending seventh time.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Noth, 71, who famously starred as Mr. Big in the hit HBO series, is bidding farewell to the one-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom abode more than three decades after purchasing it in 1994.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
I was in no hurry to do her bidding.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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"Not only will we wipe out every potential influence on public biddings – we will also make the process much faster, much more efficient and totally accountable."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
In a 2013 email to dozens of senior staff at Siemens China, the manager, Cao Yong Sheng, pointed to a “huge gap between biddings and contracts,” and asked, “Where’s the gap going?”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Peter reluctantly admitted that Mr. Lukach, when inclined, could use his prowess as a healer for darker biddings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017
Some land being put up for sale, after biddings by the well-to-do residents, an old dealer in a very small way, as was supposed, bid above them all.
From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
The latter are spectators, or proprietors, or individuals whose biddings are given from the rostrum by proxy.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt