lid
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The worry is that market interventions that keep a lid on long-dated Treasurys rates risk easing financial conditions, potentially stoking inflation in the economy, according to Coltman.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Soft LNG demand and comfortable storage levels have kept a lid on attempted rallies, despite high power-sector demand driven by hot summer weather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Sun follows with more details of Guardiola's reported talk to his team about his marital problems in a new documentary that "lifts lid on his agony".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Cool and store: Let the syrup cool, then transfer it to a jar with a lid or a deli container.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Pressure cookers are designed with heavy locks that hold the lid on the pot, even when an enormous amount of steam has built up beneath it.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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
Behind my thin lids, the rays almost hurt my pupils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Bratz dolls, all lip gloss and heavy lids, were suddenly cooler than Barbie, who looked conservative by comparison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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
Instead of moving past the house, beyond the house, instead of charging around Illinois by way of South Dakota, the mare walked toward the house, toward the gray windows like closed lids.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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
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
I parked on Range View under a sky lidded with clouds and chose a coffee and a juice from Starbucks — the sort of small, inexpensive selection that’s typical of the undesired deliveries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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
