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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

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

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

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

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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