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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

Investors may bide their time until there are more concrete details about SpaceX’s financials.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 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

He would bide his time, make them think he was content to remain here . . . and then, when they had grown lax, he would be off again.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

A rocker bides his time and offers his mountain retreat for lease while waiting for a buyer, a guitarist finds a home that hooks him, and a songwriter puts pen to sales contract in Nashville.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2020

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

It is almost best for him if he finds that his opponent has the pace of him, and if he therefore relapses to his proper style, and bides his time.

From Boating by W. B. Woodgate

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

Having bided his time, downloaded the data and figured Fury out, Usyk saw his opening then kicked the door in towards victory.

From BBC ● May 19, 2024

It’s a gift to readers that Hanna bided her time before speaking for herself.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

Gussie sulked and bided his time for nine long months.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

It did not bode well that she had.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The Justice Department in June closed an investigation of Paramount’s Warner bid before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object, The Wall Street Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Berkeley’s founding in 1868 was California’s bid for civic and economic legitimacy, initially constructed on the federal government’s support of land-grant universities that taught agriculture and mining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Tad Devine, who served as a top strategist for mainstream Democrats for decades before joining Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid, knows the mechanisms inside and out.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

With its current funding coming to an end, All Aboard Watersports has launched a Crowdfunder bid aiming to raise an initial £5,000 to help continue the project.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Meanwhile, Marset has been biding his time in jail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“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

If this week was any indication, some investors were biding their time before jumping back in.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Either way, it looks like Streeting is biding his time, meaning a drawn-out battle.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

That had been sort of unsettling, but it was another thing we weren’t discussing, another thing coiled up in the Hunter household, biding its time.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx