Fred MacMurray

I was a star before I got more than $250 a week. Carole Lombard advised me how to get a raise. She said: 'Go to Palm Springs and stay there until they raise the ante.' They were waiting to start a picture with me and I was scared they'd forget me for someone else, but they came after me.

Kevin Hart

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

American Actor

Ken Liu

The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.

American Writer

Phil Anselmo

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

American Musician

Molly Yeh

Writing a blog that is free to read on the internet is one thing, but taking up physical space in the world with a product that costs money ups the ante, so the quality has to be at a high enough level for that.

American Chef

Alice Dreger

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

American Scientist

Chelsea Handler

In a relationship, the sum of your parts should equal more than just you by yourself. He needs to bring something new and different to the table to up the ante.

American Comedian

Travis Kelce

I'm trying to just up the ante, play well-rounded both in the run game, pass game, keep doing my thing when I get the ball and make guys miss.

American Football Player

Josh Barnett

I always feel very strongly that Bloodsport is going to deliver and going to continue to try and pick up the ante every single time.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Used specifically in poker games to signify the initial contribution to the pot.

Poker Usage

Understand that 'ante' is commonly used in gambling settings, not just poker.

Gambling Context

'Ante' is also used metaphorically to mean increasing one's investment in a non-gambling context.

Metaphorical Use

Using 'ante' as a verb suggests actively participating, usually by paying money.

Active Participation

'Ante up' can express urgency or a call to action, often in a playful or challenging way.

Urgency Expression

Often used in academic or formal writing to indicate a chronological sequence.

Academic Jargon

Commonly found in medical or legal contexts, signifying prior to an event.

Medical and Legal

Typically formal, used in written or specialized spoken language.

Formality Level

 yeah and it was then that it dawned on us that actually if there wasn't bandits it was actually the army that had been sent to arrest us because we seemed to have been caught in the middle of some sort of in fight about making a an ante were Andy's publicity film about the way they weren't looking after the natural

Rwandan Army Shoot Out PIPE...

 am here to help her with anything she happens to need I know you're probably tired you're probably hungry but um I've got bigwig people coming in in the next few days so I've got to get that water line okay get it rolling and I don't want to be the ante and but you know

Running Water - Thaw...

 Second year, he raised the bar to 50 million. He got to 37 million users. Somewhat better. In the third year, he upped the ante once more to a hundred million. He launched an aggressive marketing campaign, broader distribution, improved the technology, and kaboom!

Why the secret to...

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Saving Manatees: What It...

 we have come out of our ivory tower, and started to publish ex ante -- and I stress the term ex ante, it means "in advance" — before the crash confirmed the existence of the bubble or the financial excesses. These are a few of the major bubbles

Didier Sornette: How we...

 Over the past century, and in particular in the last several decades, human endeavors, from beach development to plastic refuse to poaching, long lines, nets, and even noxious chemicals, including oil, have upped the ante for sea turtles,

The Survival of the Sea...

 I told her that I wanted to up the ante and hold my breath longer than any human being ever had. This was a different record. This was a pure O2 static apnea record that Guinness had set the world record at 13 minutes.

How I held my breath for...

 there's the B 1 will be instantaneous that doesn't seem to be doing anything this is roughly where the hard drive is so no this obviously isn't working we're gonna have to up the ante and use a bigger magnet

Can Magnets Scramble...

 Linea ante area of Botswana which was a hybrid between a Ledge where and a water back so it does happen but it is incredibly rare and a lot of hybrids as I said I said are generally done by by

Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...

 so this is a case where if you remove owners you will see a totally different state of mind the next step is to put the honor to the test now it's time to up the ante for gizmo and Julie Cesar