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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bid of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a colloquial way of saying "an attempt at" or "an effort to." It is often used in the context of trying to achieve a goal or complete a task. Example: She made a bid of finishing her homework before dinner.
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Spies won with a bid of $6,350.
Wellington may only follow a bid of nap and blücher a bid of wellington.
The telephone bidder slid in a bid of $40,000.
The group succeeded, with a bid of $2.6 billion.
He called for a bid of nine hundred thousand dollars.
This item had attracted a bid of £80.88.
I placed a bid of $157 and ran downstairs.
Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000.
The company lodged a bid of $13.10 a share.
A bid of $204 for a $20 bill.
A bid of five is overcalled by a bid of eight, which is an undertaking to play a lone hand after exchanging cards, and that by a bid of 15, which is to play alone with the hand as dealt.
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