lid
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Mars is commonly classified as a "stagnant lid" planet because, unlike Earth, its outer shell is not divided into moving tectonic plates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Steinem lifted the lid on the underpaid life of a Bunny, and the physical pain of wearing the high-heels and tight corsets for hours.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Businesses have lots of reasons to keep a lid on hiring — first and foremost, to keep costs down.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
They claim the park needs grazing to keep a lid on invasive species.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
He closed the lid again—quietly so the cops couldn’t hear it—then crouched as close to it as he could get.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Behind my thin lids, the rays almost hurt my pupils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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
This tension, he said, was compounded by subsequent U.S. intelligence reports alleging that widespread corruption had rendered some of these missiles nonfunctional—including claims of defective silo lids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The Costco fountain drink carrier is responsible not just for the soda machines and drink syrups, but also the cups, lids, and straws offered in the food court of the warehouse giant.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Behind closed lids, he reimagined the entire scene outside the Night Zoo’s walls.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
Mix it all together and deliver in a lidded deli tub.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026
The ceramic backsplash, dishes and lidded jars are all by Adam Miller for Reaperware.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2024
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
She's kind of pretty in the flickering lamplight, with glittering green powder over her smooth- lidded eyes and a short, black, bobbed haircut.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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
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
"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
