bid
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The paper says the demand is UK ministers' "latest bid to create a 'backdoor' to access encrypted customer data, a year after the Home Office agreed to drop a previous order".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The nonprofit organization noted that hours after last year’s honors gala ended, Paramount announced it was launching its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
And California recently enacted a law requiring retailers to manage how clothing waste is disposed of, in a bid to keep clothes from further bloating landfills.
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
Truman agreed to support France’s bid to retake its former colony.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Avoiding dramatic and attention-grabbing high-risk bids, he worked on what he called the creep system, inching toward his goals by winning one boring low-bid hand after another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
After losing three presidential bids, Lula finally entered the presidential palace in Brasilia in 2003 and was re-elected in 2006.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Brandon Young, an attorney for De Becker’s firm, said that neither De Becker nor his firm has any active bids to develop or run terminals at any other airports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
Before I can reply, he bids me good night and disconnects our chat.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
“I just wish this was a bad dream and I would wake up and he would be here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
He added: "We just thought it was right to speak out, hopefully the powers-that-be at Travelodge will get this sorted, and save something bad happening in the future."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
"We're living through a very bad time. We're going crazy," he says.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
The bad news is that a surprising amount of money is lost by star managers who hit a rough patch since investors mostly pile in after they’re famous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
When she thinks of it in that way, it doesn’t seem so bad.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
White House officials bade farewell on Thursday to one of the two jets that have been used to transport US presidents for more than 30 years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Some visitors were pictured sobbing as they bade the bears goodbye.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 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
By this time the cabbage and bacon were done, and the old man pushed two rickety couches up to the table and bade his guests recline and eat.
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
Newshawk Perkins did as bidden, and had his picture taken.
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
They did as they were bidden; as the lock turned, Ron clicked the Deluminator and the lights whisked back into his pocket, restoring the cellar’s darkness.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
The current hiring climate is akin to bidding wars for professional athletes, according to Kevin Cassata, founder of Karbon Agency, an executive-search firm specializing in quantitative finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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
Slant protested that I should stay, bidding Pomp and I good night.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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