lid
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But the Treasury Department may soon help matters by moving to ease pressure on longer-dated yields and keeping a lid on borrowing costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Police said about 14,000 officers, as well as soldiers, had been deployed to keep a lid on the demonstrations in Jakarta.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Markets are currently expecting more rate increases than Goldman strategists, who believe limited pressure from nonfood and energy prices will keep a lid on central bank tightening.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Its eggs contain an unusual structural lid that has not previously been documented in any stick insect or its closest relatives.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
She growls again but not in a serious way, then starts licking at the lid.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Angelenos also should ensure the lids of their trash bins are closed and block any places around their homes where fleas can enter or hide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It had somehow learned to peel off the bottles’ lids and gulp the cream down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The pink, mouse-like creatures lived in craters covered by dustbin lids - the lids' noisy "clang" gave the show its name.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
A new Assembly bill that went into effect Tuesday requires any establishment in the state where alcohol is sold for on-site consumption to have lids at the ready upon customer request.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
He tried to push the lids up off the jars with his thumbs but they were on too tight.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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Everything Sprouts said Friday that it was recalling 5 oz. lidded plastic containers of alfalfa sprouts that were distributed after May 26.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In the kitchen, hand-carved ceramic birds, whales, elephants and owls look out from the counters, surrounded by lidded cache pots and heavy candlestick holders that feel good in your hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
The name “water bath canning” refers to a crucial part of the process: submerging lidded jars in a bath of boiling water.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
Auctioneers originally thought the lidded vase was from the 20th Century but now believe it to be a "superb quality" 18th Century creation from the Qianlong period.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2023
The big glass windows here were lidded eyes that didn’t care—that barely saw them, barely gave them back reflections.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
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Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss and some of his City Council colleagues want to explore lidding Interstate 5.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
The spectrum of highway-skeptical advocacy is broad — on behalf of the wholesale removal of a portion of 99, the redesign of Aurora Avenue, the lidding of I-5 near downtown Seattle, against U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
Kirwan is never loath to combat a political foe by lidding his barrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The light had retreated at the insistence of the darkness—a scrap of cloud lidding the blank eye of the moon—and Bone Gap was still.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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"I can all but read your thoughts," he went on, lidding his green eyes a number of times.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
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