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“A leveraged investment in a business is going to beat an unleveraged investment in a good business a good bit of the time,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Even Chaucer, the first major writer in Middle English, could seem, to Tolkien, a bit progressive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“I haven’t changed a bit in the 30 years, and so I’ll continue to give people the kind of common sense governance that they deserve.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

At any rate, we’ve seen this carnival roadshow before, though it seems a bit different this time.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

I was a bit worried about it at first—whether anyone would mind, how he’d get on with all the old folks—but he loved it, and as it turned out, so did they.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

The tumult ceased, the colt submitted, And, like his ancestors, was bitted.

From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various

The old man was pale and silent, and Ben Butler felt the lines telegraphing nervous messages to his bitted mouth; but all he heard was: “Shiloh—Cap'n Tom—Steady, old hoss!”

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

"He rides the biggest whirlwind—he has got it saddled and bitted."

From The Outcry by Henry James

Ah, a tender mouth was bitted and bridled at last! the reins were in the hands of the public, and it would drive me—where?

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris

So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

This bit is what is called the persuader, and it is the best bit that ever was used for bitting colts.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

A little shadow passes over my mind as I think of the analogy to bitting a horse.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

Well what makes you so sure about it sneered the other bitting his lip so savageley that the blood ran.

From Penrod by Booth Tarkington

As regards the bitting of a puller, I would advise that with a double bridle the curb should be put low down in the mouth....

From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by M. Horace (Matthew Horace) Hayes

I have not seen a dozen coachmen, private or public, to whom my youngest child could not have given invaluable suggestions as to the bitting, harnessing, and handling of his cattle.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier