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Apollo last month made a $7.6 billion takeover bid for easyJet EZJ 2.44%increase; green up pointing triangle , surpassing an earlier agreement of around $7 billion with Castlelake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The low-cost airline said Castlelake has until Friday to align its bid with that of rival Apollo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
At 80, President Lula on Sunday launches his bid for re-election, casting himself as a defender of Brazil's "sovereignty" as pressure from Donald Trump's administration casts a shadow over the campaign.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
The monument had long been beset by structural failures and leaks, and Trump championed the project as part of his bid to beautify the capital city.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Come sit with your ole grammy. Let’s find out who’ll win the Showcase Showdown. A lady bid on two cars. Two!”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
It began in the early 1980s in an attempt to break a deadlock between two candidates whose bids were shut down by vetoes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Thanks to four years as vice president and two presidential bids, her name identification is universal, and she has demonstrated the ability to raise mounds of money.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
One way SpaceX could attempt this is by using its “deep pockets” to make expensive bids at FCC spectrum auctions, according to a Morningstar report.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
In a case like this, experts said, the nonprofit’s board should solicit competitive bids from outside companies, and factor in price and quality to make sure the charity gets the best value.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
She flips through the sheets of silent bids.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
“I started Googling it–that’s when I discovered the bad news,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I’m surprised by the overwhelming international interest in marmots, the enthusiasm for this idea and just the sort of understanding that this is making the best of a bad job,” Blumstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
"Behaviour is just put down to persistent defiance and bad behaviour, and they're punished for it," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
AI agents can churn out code with security flaws or be weaponized by bad actors to hack into computer systems.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Rue and I silently bemoan our bad luck and turn to face her.
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
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
These words were just over six weeks ago, as the United head coach bade farewell to journalists following the club's end-of-season tour to Asia.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
And he bade Cuckoo go and ask the cousin what slave he would have since he had seen them all.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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
Haldir had bidden them farewell and gone back again to the fences of the North, where great watch was now kept since the tidings of Moria that the Company had brought.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
As of Friday morning, bidding had reached $850,101, with a 22% buyer’s premium bringing the price to nearly $1.04 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Air France-KLM said it was bidding for a 44.9 to 49.9 percent stake in the airline and pledged to "position Lisbon as its unique southern European hub".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Liverpool then moved on to other targets, and PSG have now opted against entering a bidding war with Real.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The company could get aggressive at these auctions by not only collecting spectrum as a potential bargaining chip, but also by bidding up prices and raising the cost of business for its rivals, Zhu noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
“It seemed the dealers were just sitting on my lists and bidding extremely opportunistically themselves,” said Burry.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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