lid
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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
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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
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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
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
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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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