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salty

[sawl-tee] / ˈsɔl ti /




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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

A future southward movement of the subtropical front could increase the amount of salty water entering the Atlantic.

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

The meat has been described as tasting like a cross between kipper and steak or "salty goose" and, less flatteringly, as "rotten leather and fishy beef", external.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Instead the quiet of the Sunderbans encircled them like the salty, warm night air.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

This is a story about AI and chips, but not AI chips—think saltier, a little more crunchy, lower price tag.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

As warm, salty surface water travels north through the Atlantic, evaporation makes it saltier.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Scientists wanted to determine how salinity affects ichthyocarbonate production, which is known to increase as fish adjust to saltier conditions through normal osmoregulation.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

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

But what she brought back was familiar, the dried fish even saltier, and she sang, with an amused expression, the song the women sang at the center.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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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