salt
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There are even exotic offerings like timber and salt caves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Wangchuk fasted in scorching heat in the capital, Delhi, for 26 days in June and July, consuming only salt and water.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But with the large-cap index making a return to record territory on Tuesday after a two-month hiatus, investors might want to take those suggestions with a grain of salt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Sodium ion batteries could offer a more sustainable way to store large amounts of energy, and new research suggests they may eventually serve another valuable purpose: helping remove salt from seawater.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Don’t push it,” Ms. Pfister said, but she got one hundred percent of the salt and flour Mr. MacPherson had requested.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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Kyle Shanahan must believe the olfactory exhilaration of smelling salts enhances his coaching ability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
It also released about 35 percent of the fluorine atoms originally bound within the chemicals, converting them into fluoride salts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Then I’ll drink a whole liter of water if I need to replenish my body with some electrolytes and some mineral salts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The hydration break arrived and it wasn't liquid that the underdogs needed, it was oxygen, smelling salts, large brandies.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Every bell pull that could be found was rung and rung and rung yet again, to wake the sleeping servants, call for smelling salts, find someone to run for a doctor, and so on.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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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
When dried and salted, guitarfish is used in soups and stews across Ghana.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Then when the rice terraces were drained, there was the fish, spawned among the paddy, and what we could not eat, we dried and salted away.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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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
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
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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