Word: outbidding
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...husband and I struggled to find a new home. We decided to downgrade from a house to an apartment, but even that didn't help much. An almost-done deal fell through because a South Korean diplomat as well as a banker at Standard Chartered suddenly outbid us by at least $1,000?the agent delicately informed me that we were "too small potatoes" to be pinning our hopes on such a nice apartment. Another potential flat, which had cost $3,000 last June, was listed at $4,500 when I visited it. By the time I'd got home...
...asked two Choir members to outbid each other on a one dollar bill. Each bid was a few cents higher than the previous bid. When the bidding stopped at $1.28, Summers explained that if the two competing students had cooperated and stopped raising the bid, then both parties would have made money...
After outlining the problems, Wilson proposed a solution. He suggested conservation groups outbid companies at fault for destroying biodiversity, since he said these companies operate at very slim profit margins...
...felt on the skin. Kanevsky created it to help him learn to lip-read the speech of new acquaintances. He marketed the product through an Israeli company and still wears the original device on his arm. IBM's speech-research team, impressed by his math genius and practical inventiveness, outbid others to bring him to the company's Yorktown Heights, N.Y., research facility...
Dulles wasn’t alone in failing to make the cut. Red Sox Chair Tom Werner ‘71 may have outbid a group that included Overseer Joseph J. O’Donnell for control of the hometown team, but Werner won’t be joining O’Donnell as an Overseer. Richard N. Zare, a Stanford professor of Chemistry and Physics, and Rozlyn L. Anderson ‘77, a prominent black philanthropist, rounded out this year’s field...