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Recent Examples of lid Pink, brown and amber melted together on top of her lids with an iridescent white on her brow bone. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 June 2025 Close lid to grill and bake three to five minutes to your liking. Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2025 The affected product, the fresh cut cucumber, was packaged in a clear circular plastic container with a clear lid and white adhesive label, with the code 00262969000006 and dated up to May 24, 2025. Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025 With the nearly $2 trillion lid on its balance sheet gone, the bank can grow its deposit base further, invest more into high-growth lines of business and can lower costs that were previously poured into compliance and remediation efforts. Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for lid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lid
Noun
  • All components are electric, so Valero designed covers to protect said components from the elements.
    Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Secure burn barrels: If burning is permitted in your area, ensure that all burn barrels have a weighted metal cover, complete with holes no larger than 3/4 of an inch.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Each wore parkas lined with fur around the hoods and trapper hats during the skit.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • Wear it with a cardigan during takeoff, then swap in a straw hat and espadrilles for arrival.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Sitting at the top are Manchester City, the only club to exceed $50m so far.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Yet many men, in pursuit of growth and achievement, entirely sacrifice their hobbies, passions, and relationships, only to arrive at the top with fractured lives.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The best-case scenario of the robotaxi rollout could essentially double Tesla’s market cap by the end of 2026, Ives said.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 June 2025
  • Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are tech giants such as Amazon, Meta and Google, which all have market caps of over $1 trillion.
    Paige Tortorelli,Pippa Stevens,Agne Tolockaite, CNBC, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Under the hood is a familiar 375-hp, 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 and eight-speed automatic.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 June 2025
  • But under the hood, what the model actually does is generate a probability distribution over all possibilities for the next token.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • In addition to the explosives, investigators recovered an AR-15 rifle, a long gun, a military-style helmet, a ski mask, and gloves from Krebs’s vehicle, which was parked several blocks from the protest site over the weekend.
    Elaine Mallon, The Washington Examiner, 17 June 2025
  • Another photo shows a man in black tactical gear with a military-style helmet and a ballistic vest with the company’s name across the front.
    Jim Mustian, Twin Cities, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Plata then dribbles inside against Gusto’s momentum and strikes the ball into the roof of the goal, but Sanchez saves it.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • Maybe an auxiliary box on the roof of Murphy’s Bleachers?
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025

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“Lid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lid. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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