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France, meanwhile, has the confidence to bide its time and know that the opening will come eventually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

Hewson said this status, and the wealth of his other numerous firms, means while Musk does not receive a salary for his work at Tesla, "he can certainly bide his time".

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as he had: but I should bide that time, and not be hurried away in a suttee.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Now, as Lindy Chamberlain did before her, Kathleen Folbigg bides her time in jail, awaiting the outcome of the petition and a recent hearing in the NSW Court of Appeal.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2021

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

Who bides his time, and day by day, 105.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

Your aunt, for better or for worse, bided her time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 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

The Australian bided his time for a few laps, inching closer to the back of the Red Bull, before pulling off a clinical pass into Turn 14 on lap 14.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025

But for the moment, Christmas bided its time outside, a purer presence.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

Still, the Evercore team think that investors’ desire to continue betting on the AI boom may bode ill for some of those stocks that have been struggling of late.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

It didn’t bode well for Mr. Gallant’s aggressive plan, he knew, if those two were weighing in on the critical decisions of war and peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

She said that the package "should bode well for sentiment and dovetails with our forecast that growth will pick up in the second half of the year".

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Even if Raducanu is fit enough to play Ruzic, her disrupted preparation does not bode well for the rigours of a Grand Slam tournament.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

That wouldn’t bode well for her, especially if this boy took her to the Kuhani.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

They will host the Tampa Bay Rays for Game 1 on Friday as they begin their bid for the franchise’s first championship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Oslo on Tuesday for talks with top US envoys in a bid to get strained relations with Washington "on a more constructive path", Oslo said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Shortly before launching her mayoral bid, Raman also voiced frustration over the county’s handling of mental health services for the city’s homeless residents, and what she described as a lack of data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Curaleaf Holding first approached Aurora about a friendly merger, and after it was rejected, launched a hostile bid.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

“The Chinese are also seeing that India is biding its time, just working for better options that might emerge,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

But Musetti proved a silent assassin here, biding his time and making few mistakes when the opportunities arrived.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Many supporters are biding their time until the next election.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

For now, analysts say Baku is biding its time.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

And he was also biding his time, waiting for Archie to overreach himself, to make a mistake.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier