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salty

[sawl-tee] / ˈsɔl ti /




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Both Sakai and Tsugawa highlight the punch of wasabi and the salty complexity of soy sauce as complements to Wagyu.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

The toppings are market-flexible, too: Use whatever chèvre or goat cheese you find, whether it crumbles into little pillows or lands in soft clouds, and turn a leftover hunk of cornbread into crisp, salty crumbs.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Scientists have long believed that warm, salty water flowing from the Indian Ocean around the southern tip of Africa and into the Atlantic helps support one of the planet's most important ocean circulation systems.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

As Banderas plays him, he’s a bearish marvel of a man with the kind of earthy soul that would have had Ernest Hemingway chugging salty dogs on his barstool all night.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

“There’s something sweet and salty on the other side of this fence, Duke!”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Whether your team chicken, shrimp, or beef, the individual packets are highly concentrated and on the saltier side.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

Or it could simply be more evidence that New Yorkers are saltier than average sports fans.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 29, 2025

In recent decades, as the lake shrank and grew saltier than the ocean, nearly all the fish have died and the migratory birds that relied on them for sustenance have become scarce.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 2024

As sea levels rise, coastal groundwater is lifted closer to the ground surface while also becoming saltier and more corrosive.

From Science Daily Apr. 15, 2024

The waves just kept on coming, larger and harsher and saltier than ever before.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Stewart did not refrain from expressing this opinion in the saltiest terms on-air, especially to Carlson, the show’s co-host who was cast as the overgrown college Republican with odious views and a polka dot bowtie.

From Salon Feb. 2, 2026

And the Oscar for saltiest reaction to the film academy’s new diversity and inclusion requirements goes to...

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2020

With that goal in mind, Pugh, Manda and Andrea Gibbs, the local agriculture agent for North Carolina Cooperative Extension, convened at the edge of Pugh’s saltiest field on a recent blustery afternoon.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2019

Where are the saltiest parts of the oceans?

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

Though written almost entirely in an Italian village it has been justly described by an able critic as "one of the saltiest stories ever published."

From The Visionary Pictures From Nordland by Jessie Muir




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