They've upped the ante by making a $120 million bid to buy the company. From LearnThat.org. [www.ldoceonline.com]
Definitely the easy way to up the ante is to add a new trick. From Wordnik.com. ['02 halfpipe winner Kelly Clark keeps feet on ground] Reference
The prohibitionist dreams of some anti-gun types only up the absolutist ante from the NRA wackos. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Gun Lovin’ Liberals] Reference
I really need i cell phone because my ante is dead. From Wordnik.com. [Win a free cell phone + “Iron Man” comic, book! » Scene-Stealers] Reference
The ante should be a small sum, the smaller the better. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
Also raising the ante was the rescue operation of Capt. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
The pre-Civil War era is called the ante-bellum period, the time before the war. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn W. Smith: We Hanged Him Because There Was a Tree There] Reference
Upping the ante is the "double Badwater," which is the same course out and back -- nearly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bilerico Project] Reference
Just inside the tent, in what might be called the ante chamber, was the collection of animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus] Reference
"Upping the ante is a change of posture so someone is clearly making decisions," said Fitzpatrick. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Moving around every couple of years in order to up your ante is your basic corporate drone pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
He opened it and found that it led to a kind of ante-chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Circus of Adventure]
A closed system, a poker table where your ante is your patent portfolio. From Wordnik.com. [Resources | ZDNet] Reference
He is, in fact, identified with this initial stake, and is known as "ante" throughout the game. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
It was an unusual thrill, a kind of ante-euphoria, an anticipation of emotions still to be felt. From Wordnik.com. [Not the End of the World]
There was no "ante" for the scene -- you were either in it or not. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
On the one hand, you must "ante" one gem into your gem pile each turn. From Wordnik.com. [Blog] Reference
But if bodily only, where is the difference between 'ante' and 'post Christum?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Every player will "ante" up a token amount for the privilege of receiving their first cards. From Wordnik.com. [Critical sports blog] Reference
"It is also the kind of ante-raising that one might expect in a negotiating game of 'Chicken'.". From Wordnik.com. [IPS Inter Press Service] Reference
"It is also the kind of ante-raising that one might expect in a negotiating game of 'Chicken.'". From Wordnik.com. [MyAntiwar.org] Reference
If you pay 20 Auro as "ante" and then only earn 20 Auro with your performance, obviously you broke even. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Mac Games] Reference
On entering, one found himself in a kind of ante-room, separated from the main apartment by a pink curtain. From Wordnik.com. [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference
Thus the twenty-fourth of May was called ante diem nonum kalendas Junias (i.e. the ninth day before the kalends of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
When playing poker you have to make a small bet before the cards are dealt called an "ante" to begin play in that hand. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
I looked into a kind of ante-room on one side of the entrance, which the ruler of Carrington used as an office or study. From Wordnik.com. [Lorimer of the Northwest] Reference
'ante' to the game was fifty cents, with no limit. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference
And the Kalashnikov-toting corsairs just kept upping the ante. From Wordnik.com. [Sarkozy’s Obama Envy] Reference
The folks behind “24” have never been interested in the ante. From Wordnik.com. [Die Another Day] Reference
Now two new cookbooks are about to up the ante dramatically -- by lowering it. From Wordnik.com. [The Downsizing Of Dinner] Reference
But many experts, including Kurtz, are afraid that penny ante may soon be passe. From Wordnik.com. [Terror's Next Target?] Reference
Standard & Poor's told investors to ante up to 65 percent of their money into the market. From Wordnik.com. [Money:If The Water's Looking Warm] Reference
The company was willing to ante up even more to keep the venture going, the spokesman says. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell, Pretoria] Reference
North Korea has always worried Tokyo; now the perceived danger from China is upping the ante. From Wordnik.com. [FUEL TO THE FIRE] Reference
Don't up the ante for everyone by hiring a clown if no one else in your community uses professional entertainers. From Wordnik.com. [Party On, Little Dudes] Reference
So we propose to up the ante: this year the losing league has to pay the legal fees for Alex and Cynthia Rodriguez. From Wordnik.com. [How to Boost All-Star Game Ratings] Reference
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