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This debt doesn’t necessarily mean you are “trapped,” but you may have to bide your time to make sure the door doesn’t hit you — hard — on the way out.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026

There's a limit on how long Iran can bide its time, however.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

“I have everything prepped for the price raise, but I haven’t implemented it because I’m still trying to bide my time to see what happens,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

She said the lieutenant governor’s role is typically a sleepy perch for politicians as they bide their time to run for higher office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026

“You will bide here until we are ready to march. Then you shall have the chance to prove your loyalty.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Henry bides his time, watching other subjects closely before befriending Eleven.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

Anyone familiar with Gurnah’s work knows that he bides his time, withholding the meaning of a moment because his often-displaced characters don’t know how to express it — or can’t.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

But if the host cell is lucky, maybe the virus simply settles into this cozy outpost—either going dormant or back-engineering its little genome into the host’s genome—and bides its time.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 14, 2021

But she still usually bides her time, letting other Justices have their say before homing in calmly, yet relentlessly, on weaknesses that she’s identified in an argument.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019

Nothing bides nothing: that which is shall be; Though form, not essence, change unceasingly.

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.

For two-thirds of Sunday’s Long Beach Grand Prix, Alex Palou bided his time … waiting for the one break he needed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Newby toned it down and bided his time.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

Many bided time in a hardscrabble neighborhood, renamed “Little Haiti,” while working in car washes, restaurants and factories that produce goods for export to the United States.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

Little did they realise that in our world, the black world, one could only survive if one played the fool, and bided his time.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

A successful push into new areas would bode well for XPeng’s earnings as China’s EV industry experiences a slowdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

That just doesn’t bode well for the future — it’s paying off in the present too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Campaign strategists love to tout a military record, a blue-collar résumé, small-business ownership, and a life of family and faith, in part because they suggest qualities that bode well for a political leader.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

The dynamics at home also bode well for some companies.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

“This does not bode well for Germany,” warned Bert’s father.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Trading on the benchmark index has been halted seven times this year in a bid to calm panic selling after it fell by 8%.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

A wary Tinseltown reluctantly lined up behind Netflix as the lesser of two evils, only to watch Paramount keep raising its bid until the streamer walked away in February.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

The Guardian reported last week that as the World Cup neared its successful conclusion, nearly 200 of FIFA’s 211 member associations are endorsing Infantino’s bid for reelection to a fourth term as president next March.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Payments company Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International have made a joint takeover bid for PayPal, valued at some $53 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

He told Hermes to go down to the underworld and to bid the lord of it let his bride go back to Demeter.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Now it seems the Spaniard was simply biding his time, patiently waiting for a full return to fitness in order to peak at the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The explanation, with hindsight, is obvious: Xi was biding his time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

I sensed he was looking through me and not at me, as if he had decided I wasn’t his type and was biding his time until the bell rang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

Or, maybe, investors are just biding their time ahead of some real news later this week.

From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025

But, of course, it was my body, hungering, biding its time against the tyranny of my spirit.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez