the most common contemporary use is "bated breath", otherwise rare
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Uses:
She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
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I could not have bated him an ace had he been my own father; and as for the subject, such another does not present itself once in half a century.'
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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“And I should do so as certainly, bating sickness or death, as that two and two make four.”