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salt

[sawlt] / sɔlt /


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Then a little bit of salt, a little bit of olive oil—I like to use Shear Rock Farms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then, before making the final salt adjustment, add about 1/2 teaspoon to 1 teaspoon of vinegar.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Sven is taking part in the main competition, where competitors must prepare traditional porridge using only three ingredients - oatmeal, water and salt.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“So what I do is just try to enhance the experience like a little salt and pepper. Season it up a little bit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I stood there, staring at her, tasting the salt of the tears running down my face.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The Seahawks, defending Super Bowl champions, got a collective whiff of smelling salts before Sunday’s game, having suffered an embarrassing loss at Washington a week earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

As the skipper of the 40-foot sloop First Light, Ms. Brauer had at her fingertips resources that would have amazed the salts of yore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

They said these often contained heavy metal salts or nitrosamines that can leach into the environment once the balloon degrades.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Kyle Shanahan must believe the olfactory exhilaration of smelling salts enhances his coaching ability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

I held it to my face and smelled the back of Ben’s wagon, spice and yeast with the bitter tang of acids and chemical salts mingled in.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Bishop’s worldly ruminations are salted with references to Saint-Exupéry, Plato and Nietzsche.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

I had prepped appetizers, sides and heavily salted my steaks, in advance, which was fortunate.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The birds are gutted, plucked and salted on Sula Sgeir before being taken by boat to Lewis where they are counted by a NatureScot official.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

The strips were then blanched, salted, and fried in soybean oil that had been heated to 180 degrees Celsius.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

In December 1944, Lulu assembled a truckload of rice, beans, sugar, peanuts, canned goods, salted fish, and candies for the prisoners of the Los Baños internment camp.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

First, the bad news: “Snowcrete” is the treacherous ice that results when rain, imprecise or nonexistent plowing and insufficient salting turn what was once fluffy white snow into a dense and dirty scourge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Rock samples dating from 1995 to 1997 were analysed and found to have been tampered with through a process called salting.

From BBC ● May 18, 2024

They could get a job now and start salting away that cash and get some great life lessons along the way.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2024

The Drexel team has been developing its cold-weather-resilient concrete mix over the last five years with the goal of reducing the freezing, thawing and salting that eats away at roads and other concrete surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024

They’re pretty busy salting down a new load of herring, but Devlin Murphy, the boss and owner, he gives me the eye and comes over before I can get away.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick




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