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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

Gina Saarberg, 28, took the coveted Golden Spurtle using the same recipe that saw her crowned Dutch champion in July, using organic pinhead oats, salt and water that she brought with her from the Netherlands.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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

"Ultra-processed food triggers dopamine, the pleasure hormone, which promotes craving. Food companies work with scientists to find just the right amount of sugar, salt, and fat that make you want to eat more and more."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

I poured in a little water, dropped in a chunk of salt pork, and set it on the stove.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Their findings suggest that the material came from a region near the surface of its parent asteroid, where liquid water evaporated and left behind increasingly concentrated salts.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

She passed some smelling salts under the old lady’s nose, making her flinch and moan, but she didn’t wake up.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

"Their tradition lives on in my own kitchen, where my twins now enjoy properly salted, never sweet porridge cooked by me or their grandad," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Marcona almonds are lovely if you want an amusing high-low dialogue with the potato chips that appear later, though any salted roasted almond will do.

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

For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

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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