lid
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Its stars form a shape that resembles a teapot, including a handle, lid, and spout.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
"I'm sure it was going on at Downton Abbey, but now the lid is lifted on what really happens in these stately homes."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The actress previously lifted the lid on how trading the glare of the Hollywood spotlight for quaint farm life in upstate New York helped to ease her unrest.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
They claim the park needs grazing to keep a lid on invasive species.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The donut sat on the lid of one.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
It had somehow learned to peel off the bottles’ lids and gulp the cream down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
At others, embers from the blazes landed on trash and recycling bins close to the houses, sometimes burning holes through the plastic lids and igniting the material inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
He told BBC Newsnight's special programme: "Why has this one got the firmest of lids on it? I think it is because it goes to the heart of the British state."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
There are tiny tears seeping out from under her lids.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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
Smith understood how her features cut into and through a role – wide eyes amply lidded, trenchant cheekbones, features that one might associate with snobbery.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 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
For bathrooms, interior designer Emily Ruff of Cohesively Curated Interiors uses stoneware or marble canisters to hold toothbrushes and lidded canisters for cotton rounds or Q-tips.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
“Very pleasant, thank you,” said Mum, as a tubby man with joke-shop sideburns trundled a large, white, lidded wheely bucket round from the front of the house.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
