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Manchester City have opened talks with Chelsea in their bid to sign midfielder Enzo Fernandez.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
To raise the price, Amazon began entering its own bid, known as a “soft reserve,” which was higher than the price of the runner-up bidder, the FTC will allege.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Apple's chief executive Tim Cook bid farewell to the tech giant on Monday, paying tribute to founder Steve Jobs and praising staff as "extraordinary," as he passed the baton to incoming CEO John Ternus.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
“There’s nothing like attractive real yields and a whiff of slower growth to shift the narrative and spur a renewed bid into rates,” said Melson at Natixis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Benji and Felix stood in front of the podium and bid over and over again.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
Without the armies of aides, interns, and volunteers who answer phones in Capitol Hill offices, draft bills, and staff campaigns, lawmaking and reelection bids across the country would grind to a halt.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Liverpool are exploring a move for Crystal Palace's Ismaila Sarr after Brighton rejected their two bids for Yankuba Minteh.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The watch, made this year, has more than a dozen bids on Loupe This, for as high as $10,500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ballmer, like Iger, had come up short in earlier bids for teams, and wasn’t going to let it happen again with the Clippers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
‘My master, Mr. John Hancock, Esquire, bids me leave these coins—one for each of the poor work-boys—hoping they will drink his health and be diligent at their benches.’Then he was gone.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Not all figures are bad, however, as employment has steadily risen in Canadian sectors that are not vulnerable to US tariffs.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
And the recent bad news from the turmoil in the bond market — which has seen long-term interest rates rising to multidecade highs — is also good news for those nearing or in retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
My grandmother has been sick for a while, and this — well, it has just been a really bad week.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
He told a Jewish paper that Clinton was “such a nice guy” who is “trying to get peace in a very bad time in the Middle East.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
As if being back here on this wretched road—the place he’d un-died—weren’t bad enough, ahead of them, Fernlight Forest stretched upward and outward, rich and leafy and gold-dappled green.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
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
Finally, two irreplaceable artistic leaders bade farewell to their longtime posts at companies they co-founded: Sachs at the Fountain Theatre and John Perrin Flynn at Rogue Machine Theatre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
When Ged asked him no more he quietly bade the young man good night, and went off up the narrow stepped street above the quays.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
A messenger arrives as bidden, with all the papers from London.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no suggestion of the intimidated, the vanquished or the bidden about Konrad Adenauer's visit.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had bidden him not to part with the cup—ever.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The company didn’t apply the new bidding structure to all advertising auctions, the FTC’s complaint said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
At a time when foreign lenders have been exiting their Indian bank portfolios, Japanese banks are aggressively bidding for Indian financial assets.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
That was a red flag during the bidding process: There’s a big difference between a job taking three days and three months.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
European Council chief Antonio Costa kicked off a tour of EU capitals this week bidding to hammer out a compromise on the budget -- with the clock ticking down to a December deadline.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“You had a brilliant idea, bidding against each other in the auction. You were very close to winning.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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