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Example sentences for: ante

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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."
In fact, they've upped the ante.
The number of relevant workplace injuries mentioned (by the NYT ) in yesterday's coverage was 600,000, but today's USAT and Wall Street Journal (in an inside story) up the ante to 1.8 million.
Sensing opportunity, Ross kept upping the ante, like a Mafia henchman running a protection racket.
Again, with Celebration there is the tendency to inflate the ordinary into the extraordinary, as if the presence of Disney raised the ante, somehow.