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Example sentences for: ante

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In fact, they've upped the ante.
Curtis is ingenious in his slapstick farce and spoof mode, less assured when the emotional ante is upped.
The WP , which was much more aggressive from the git-go, simply raises the ante today, with not just a long front-page piece but also not one, but two additional Albert pieces elsewhere in the paper, one a ramble wondering if Albert can rebound professionally, the other a thumb-sucker about women who stand by their man when he's in trouble.
Newsweek , perhaps foreseeing that Time would repeat this device from last year, upped the ante with a list of "100 Americans for the Next Century."
As the Court explains, if LSC-funded lawyers anticipate that a forbidden claim will arise in a prospective client's suit, they "may not undertake [the] representation," ante, at 9. Likewise, if a forbidden claim arises unexpectedly at trial, "LSC-funded attorney[s] must cease the representation at once," ante, at 10.