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England head coach Steve Borthwick will have his contract extended past the 2028 Six Nations in a bid to avoid uncertainty over his future before and during next year's Rugby World Cup.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
That raises questions over how much the company might collaborate or compete with legacy media and entertainment giants in a bid to grow its empire even further, BofA analysts said on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
A federal judge rejected AMC’s bid to have the case thrown out in 2024, and it was set to go to trial in October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
In 2016 a Chinese chip-making company launched a takeover bid for Germany’s Aixtron, a specialist in the field selling semiconductors to the U.S. arms industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Burr had alienated Jefferson and the triumphant Republican party by his disloyalty as a vice president and had lost by a landslide in his bid to become a Federalist governor of New York.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Once a thriving retail destination valued at $1.2 billion, San Francisco Centre is back on the market, with bids expected to top out at just $130 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Bad actors entered live auctions to place fake bids on items for up to $1,000 before letting the payments fail, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
They have previously had two bids rejected by the Ligue 1 side.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
"Advertisers adjust bids based on real-world performance, not descriptions of auction mechanics," Amazon said in its statement.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
“Who would not eat when hunger bids them?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
"The changes that are being talked about are not going to mean that every incidence of bad behaviour is going to suddenly change the way that finances are resolved," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It’s like if I tried to do a really bad impression of Barack Obama,” Vice President J.D.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
"When you're in the low- to mid-30s, that's traditionally associated with a very bad midterm for your party," he said of the 80-year-old's approval ratings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Not a bad place,” Mr. Adams joked, explaining how he refashioned the concept of a parody mass, in which a fragment of an earlier work serves as the foundation of something new.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Dad, what do you do when all your options are bad ones?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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 hastened back to the ship and bade his crew set sail.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
The three fathers, after 20 years, are hence bidden to a house party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Mussolini had bidden his proud followers to "lift up their standards, their weapons and their hearts and greet the new empire which after 15 centuries again reappears upon the fateful hills of Rome."
From Time Magazine Archive
After their suitcases had been unloaded from the station wagon, and Rhonda had signed a form and bidden them farewell, the children were left to wait in a loading area by the bridge gate.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Scharpf said courts upheld the bidding process in the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The meeting cancellation came after The Times inquired with the district about the bidding process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
A premium suggests investors are betting on a sweetened offer or a bidding war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Andre Villas-Boas, the president of FC Porto, told BBC Sport that the Portuguese club has had to step up their scouting efforts instead of getting into bidding wars they cannot win.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
And there was still Nagini, who must remain close now, no longer sent to do his bidding, under his protection....
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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