bide
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Investors may bide their time until there are more concrete details about SpaceX’s financials.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
"I'm trying to bide my time with it."
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
Muddy Waters’ CEO Carson Block says investors need to bide their time before trying to short the AI revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 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
I know I’m being watched, so I bide my time.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
The wise beekeeper is not deterred by a bad season but simply bides his chance.
From Bee Hunting A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters - Tell How to Line Bees to Trees, Etc. by John Ready Lockard
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
It’s a gift to readers that Hanna bided her time before speaking for herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
He had bided his time all summer, waiting for the horses to reach their peaks and the demand for the race to build again.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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That doesn’t bode well for the contribution exports will make in the final quarter of the year, when the economy is already expected to feel the strain of heightened trade tensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The slight gap between the two candidates doesn’t bode well for Bass, since Raman is expected to secure a larger portion of the late-arriving ballots in the coming days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
That’s usually a sign of a lack of enthusiasm, and it doesn’t bode well for Tuesday’s results.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Analysts said that does not bode well for bilateral relations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
What took place that day did not bode well for Clarkson or for Philadelphia.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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Pressure is building on Gordon Brothers, which bought Poundland for £1 last June, after the owner rejected a takeover bid that could have saved the thousands of jobs currently at risk.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Even though she had endorsed Bass for mayor, she later launched her own last-minute mayoral bid, saying the city “can’t seem to manage the basics.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
But most Senate watchers think a competing bid is unlikely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Raman was an 11th-hour entrant into the race, and had even initially backed Bass's re-election bid.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
“And my sister here had the brilliant idea of putting in a bid to expand La Cocina!”
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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Meanwhile, Marset has been biding his time in jail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
But Musetti proved a silent assassin here, biding his time and making few mistakes when the opportunities arrived.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Either way, it looks like Streeting is biding his time, meaning a drawn-out battle.
From BBC ● May 15, 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
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