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lid

[lid] / lɪd /
NOUN
top covering
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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

Longer term, though, AI investments could make the economy more efficient, keeping a lid on inflation while helping bond prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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

Beneath a spray of entirely white glads, the lid on the pine coffin stood open before us.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

It had somehow learned to peel off the bottles’ lids and gulp the cream down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Prego assures customers there’s no reason to get our lids in a twist: The Connection Keeper doesn’t require a Wi-Fi connection or use artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 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

In a small fold of hide were two dozen rolled tin lids.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

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

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


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