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Deacon Blues was cut to 11-4 from 9-2 for the Champion Sprint on Champions Day by Coral on Sunday, in a market in which Dream Ahead, Bated Breath and Hoof It, the first three home in the Sprint Cup at Haydock, are the only other contenders at single-figure odds.

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Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel a process called aphesis; it means “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”.

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Bated (unles you're trying to catch a mouse and it's scented with (fierce) cheese).

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Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated let alone the verb to bate, outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom.

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Pastor Rollins is also an award-winning photographer and best-selling author, to his credit are three published novels, Like Breathing, Breathe again and the recently released, Bated Breath, all a part of a series he has aptly titled, "the breathing chronicles."

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Pastor Rollins is also an award-winning photographer and best-selling author, to his credit are three published novels, Like Breathing, Breathe again and the recently released, Bated Breath, all a part of a series he has aptly titled, "the breathing chronicles."

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Bated breath: An investor looks at the stock-price monitor at a private security company in Shanghai yesterday.

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Bated, there's a line, "out of the ashes, the Phoenix will rise."

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Bated breath with every Barry Bonds at-bat as he nears one of the most coveted records in sports.

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Bated, there's a line, "out of the ashes, the Phoenix will rise."

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