outbid
verb
out·bid
ˌau̇t-ˈbid 
outbid; outbidden
ˌau̇t-ˈbi-dᵊn
; outbidding
; outbidding
: to make a higher bid than : to offer more than
… when employers clamor to outbid each other for the services of an engineering elite …—
Randall E. Stross
Randall E. StrossExamples of outbid in a Sentence
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According a report in Variety, the Daily Mail offered to pay $126,000 for the farm stand footage, only to be outbid by the Sun.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
One possible candidate is Frontier Airlines, a low-cost carrier that had proposed buying Spirit before JetBlue outbid it by about $1 billion.
—J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
The state’s largest corporate landlord was recently fined millions for rent gouging while also outbidding young families trying to buy first homes.
—Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
Competing search engines will likely never be able to afford to outbid Google and form their own agreements, the DOJ argued.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2023
Peterson, a lawyer, and her husband, a tech worker, made several offers on homes at the start of 2023, when rates were around 6%, but they were outbid each time.
—Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
Ant outbid Citadel Securities for Credit Suisse’s China venture.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
Per the report, Disney outbid Netflix and Universal Pictures (which handled digital/VOD distribution for the film) for the streaming rights.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
Two years earlier, CBS lost the rights to its NFL package, outbid by Rupert Murdoch’s then-nascent Fox network.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
One possible candidate is Frontier Airlines, a low-cost carrier that had proposed buying Spirit before JetBlue outbid it by about $1 billion.
—J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
The state’s largest corporate landlord was recently fined millions for rent gouging while also outbidding young families trying to buy first homes.
—Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
Competing search engines will likely never be able to afford to outbid Google and form their own agreements, the DOJ argued.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2023
Peterson, a lawyer, and her husband, a tech worker, made several offers on homes at the start of 2023, when rates were around 6%, but they were outbid each time.
—Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
Ant outbid Citadel Securities for Credit Suisse’s China venture.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
Per the report, Disney outbid Netflix and Universal Pictures (which handled digital/VOD distribution for the film) for the streaming rights.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
Two years earlier, CBS lost the rights to its NFL package, outbid by Rupert Murdoch’s then-nascent Fox network.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
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“Outbid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outbid. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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