salt
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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
I learned to cook thinking that “finishing” a dish meant adding enough salt and pepper.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
It is dismal reading for Arsenal fans, whose optimism has quickly diminished and their 4-2 defeat at City on Sunday added further salt to their wounds.
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
He also gives each table a little dish with some tiny crystals on it—almost like salt grains—and the tiniest little spoon I’ve ever seen.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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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
Molten salts are inorganic compounds that can remain stable even under demanding chemical reaction conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 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
In the bedroom, women were holding smelling salts under her nose.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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Bishop’s worldly ruminations are salted with references to Saint-Exupéry, Plato and Nietzsche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
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
Gloria slit a plantain from tip to tip, peeled the casing back, and cut diagonal slices which she dipped in the salted water.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
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
They loved to eat bits of the curd when Ma was salting it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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