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ante

noun as in wager

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“They’ve got to up the ante by searching officers going in,” Davis says.

From BBC

“This is my guy,” he said, before quickly upping the ante: “I got this inning,” he declared, as Muncy later recounted.

However, Sinner then underlined his status as world number one, upping the ante when it mattered most to strike the crucial blow as Fritz served to stay in the set at 5-4 down.

From BBC

Other media personalities decidedly upped the ante and said the not-so-quiet part out loud, espousing misogynistic rhetoric outlining so-called reasons why women are not equipped to be Secret Service agents.

From Salon

The blockbuster sale, which The Times is reporting exclusively and based on real estate records, ups the ante on what a house can fetch in the Golden State.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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