salt
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But our advice columnist Aditi Shrikant explains why influencers can still be useful, providing you take their recommendations with a grain of salt.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
"At the time I thought they were only found in salt marsh areas around the Thames estuary."
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Maas writes that Rhysand smells like citrus, sea salt and rain and his wings, which he can hide at will, look leathery and dark-scaled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Among the diverse habitats are a salt marsh that serves as a nursery for leopard sharks and bat rays and kelp forests frequented by harbor seals and wrasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Anything to break up the monotony of herring, salt tack, and sauerkraut at every meal.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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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
The researchers now want to investigate ways to confine the molten salts, potentially using halogens or carbon-based materials, which could make the salts easier to separate and process while improving their stability.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Molten salts are inorganic compounds that can remain stable even under demanding chemical reaction conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“I can make you an ointment for that,” said Haldon, “and there are certain mineral salts that will toughen your skin.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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As Doncic salted the game away, he was serenaded with chants of “MVP!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Bishop’s worldly ruminations are salted with references to Saint-Exupéry, Plato and Nietzsche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
His colleagues are gleeful taste-testers, particularly when he brings in his famous salted caramel brownies.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Grassy, rich olive oil; creamy salted butter — or nutty brown butter, if you’re feeling fancy — and savory pork fat are all winners in my household.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Elisha had calculated the supplies they’d need: salted meats, dried fruits, hard biscuits, scientific instruments, even smaller boats.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Yet Mr. Kean seems at times a little too eager to prove that “The Museum of Lost Things” isn’t a traditional history book, salting his otherwise sturdy prose with the occasional vulgarity or glib joke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
With consequences for her too — who could imagine her salting a mother-in-law’s soup just so?
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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