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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He was outbid when the work last sold at auction in 1995 for $475,500 ($974,500 today, accounting for inflation).
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 19 May 2024
The surfer is in negotiations with the owner, a realtor and his own financial broker to buy his childhood home, but he’s been outbid by a cash buyer and needs to raise another 100K in Australian dollars.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
But Blackstone not only won the support of HSF’s board of directors with its latest $1.30-per-share bid, the investment giant always had the upper hand due to an option to match or outbid any HSF takeover offer.
—Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, Billboard, 16 May 2024
Other teams will be interested in Thompson and will be able to outbid Golden State.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
At the time, Universal was outbid by Paramount, which developed the project with Leonardo DiCaprio for years before putting it in turnaround.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 May 2024
At the Steamboat hospital, doctors willing to pay more than $1 million for a home have been repeatedly outbid by all-cash, out-of-town buyers, and housing costs have caused some positions to go unfilled for more than two years.
—Josh Feldman, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
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
Zachary Small, New York Times, 19 May 2024
The surfer is in negotiations with the owner, a realtor and his own financial broker to buy his childhood home, but he’s been outbid by a cash buyer and needs to raise another 100K in Australian dollars.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
But Blackstone not only won the support of HSF’s board of directors with its latest $1.30-per-share bid, the investment giant always had the upper hand due to an option to match or outbid any HSF takeover offer.
—Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, Billboard, 16 May 2024
Other teams will be interested in Thompson and will be able to outbid Golden State.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
At the time, Universal was outbid by Paramount, which developed the project with Leonardo DiCaprio for years before putting it in turnaround.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 May 2024
At the Steamboat hospital, doctors willing to pay more than $1 million for a home have been repeatedly outbid by all-cash, out-of-town buyers, and housing costs have caused some positions to go unfilled for more than two years.
—Josh Feldman, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
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
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“Outbid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outbid. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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