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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

At this point, most of us instinctively reach for the salt.

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

“Don’t worry, I’ll see you get overtime,” she added, pulling a wheel from her cauldron as we stepped in, placing it on a tray prepared with butter, salt, a sharp knife, and two plates.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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 are typically made with refined fats, oils, sugars, starches, salts, and other additives designed to improve flavor, texture, and shelf life, often while lowering nutritional quality.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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

But they all sounded like witches’ brews: the plasma of chickens, puree of calf fetuses, special salts, and blood from human umbilical cords.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

He said salted porridge had shaped his life, thanks to his Scottish granny and his Dad, who was born on the Isle of Jura and raised in Greenock.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

On the other goes a coarse, olive-bar-inspired romesco made with jarred roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, salted roasted almonds and smoked paprika.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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

Arletta Paisley was from Hope Springs, Texas, and every word she said came out coated in a thick Texas drawl, sweet but with a little edge, like salted caramel.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

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

The Department for Infrastructure said salting of "roads on the scheduled network considered to be at risk of ice and snow has been undertaken through the night".

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024

As if the expense and trouble were not irksome enough, all and sundry insisted on salting Ned's wound by calling it "the Hand's tourney," as if he were the cause of it.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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