bade

verb

variants or bid
Definition of badenext
past tense of bid
1
as in instructed
to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority the servants were expected to do exactly as they were bidden

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2
as in invited
to request the presence or participation of as company president, I bid you all to come to our annual holiday party!

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Recent Examples of bade Tampa Bay ended an eight-game winning streak by the Brewers, who were bidding to become only the second team to sweep a League Championship Series and the World Series. — Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 DoorDash previously bid for Instacart in 2021, but at a significantly higher valuation. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Once victims click, thieves install software to take control of their accounts and start bidding on real shipments. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026 Yet the second coming of the Venza had an even shorter run than the first, bidding adieu after 2024. — Matt Degen, AJC.com, 23 Oct. 2026 There will also be some exciting auction items for attendees to bid on including an opportunity to meet the new Thunder, the Broncos mascot. — Libby Smith, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 With reigning champion Tadej Pogacar bidding for a record-breaking sixth title, cycling's biggest race could be decided in the Pyrenees during the final week. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 And the Pentagon is bidding against foreign governments for the ones that are left. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026 Stay quiet, and the fiber requirement arrives with nothing behind it which leads to every brand in Europe bidding for the same scarce material. — Erik Lagerblad, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bade
  1. instructed
  2. invited
  3. ordered
  4. asked
  5. told
  6. commanded
Verb
  • Employees not involved in emergency response or shutdown operations were instructed to shelter as a precaution.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutor Louise Gray said Ali instructed a group of men to drive three vans to RAF Fairford, park the vehicles and walk away.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of instructed
Verb
  • Participants are invited to leave something at the community altar.
    — Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Successful candidates will then be invited to spend a day at the bank’s offices where they are tested on banking regulation, their use of AI, and their ability to build calculations.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of invited
Verb
  • Also Sunday, prosecutors ordered a 48-hour detention of Marko Kricak, Vucic's chief of criminal police.
    — MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • More than 100 miles southeast of Sedona, officials in Gila County ordered the total evacuation of Gisela, a small community of several hundred residents along Tonto Creek.
    — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of ordered
Verb
  • But when asked about Cohen on Tuesday, Riley heaped praise on the athletic director.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Deanna Paul, an attorney for Tal, said that the brothers asked them and their wives not to attend.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of asked
Verb
  • At the Vatican a day earlier, Leo told the teams from alma mater Villanova and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame that in matters of sport, the pontiff was neutral.
    — Andrew Dampf, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
  • In other cases, developers have told towns that decade-old ideas for enormous retail development of open parcels simply aren’t practical anymore.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of told
Verb
  • Some years ago, the State met me in behalf of the Church, and commanded me to pay a certain sum toward the support of a clergyman whose preaching my father attended, but never I myself.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The film draws on the story of King Solomon, said in legend to have commanded the jinn.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of commanded

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“Bade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bade. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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