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I was looking into buying a house at the beginning of 2020, and then everything happened and people were outbidding us.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022

Bigger and richer universities, primed with ample funds and numerous undergraduates whom they could pay their graduate fellows to teach, were outbidding it for the cream of the nation's annual scholarly crop.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tribunes were outbidding one another in extravagant proposals, while Caesar's legions, sent home from Greece to rest after their long service, were enjoying their victory in the license which is miscalled liberty.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony