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In 2013, the vaccination rate among California kindergartners hit a low of 92.3%, below the 95% threshold doctors say is needed to keep a lid on outbreaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Markets have adjusted to the conflict by drawing on commercial and strategic reserves, keeping a lid on demand and seeking out other countries for crude and crude products.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

“There isn’t enough refining capacity running to turn the available crude into product—which keeps a lid on crude, and at the same time leaves product markets scrambling,” said analysts at Morgan Stanley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

You have to believe in what is under the lid, behind the frost, wrapped in parchment, waiting to become itself again.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

“But you have the litter box we bought you right here, with the snap-on lid and everything!”

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

Milkmen fought back in various ways, putting stones atop the lids and draping cloths over them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

One of the quiet tragedies of the potluck is that perfectly good food often remains trapped in its travel container — lids half removed, plastic corners fogged with condensation.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

The lids of at least some of those silos had problems, likely forcing the Chinese military to repair them, the Pentagon said in its 2024 report on China’s military power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

A spokesperson for the Mother Lode in West Hollywood said that the only difference in operations was a stack of plastic lids at the end of the bar, which will be provided for free.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

Watching the two from beneath sulkily lowered lids, Ranofer saw Gebu walk quickly to meet him and draw him aside.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

In the kitchen, hand-carved ceramic birds, whales, elephants and owls look out from the counters, surrounded by lidded cache pots and heavy candlestick holders that feel good in your hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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 each species, the researchers chose a particularly irresistible food — carrots, alfalfa or another treat — and put them in lidded cups in their enclosures.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 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