salt
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Growing evidence suggests that excessive salt intake may also interfere with memory, thinking, and emotional well-being.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Smart use of salt and wastewater, joined with allocation agreements that recognize the inevitability of low-water years, can still create a future the Colorado River could actually provide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The deck replacement is necessary because traffic loads on the span have become increasingly heavy, and salt air has eroded bridge materials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
When asked whether she would ever consider switching brands, her reply is a reminder of an old Hindi ad jingle, "If it's salt, it has to be Tata."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
In the back of the room, Babycakes sat placidly licking a light-pink wheel of salt.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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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
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
Kyle Shanahan must believe the olfactory exhilaration of smelling salts enhances his coaching ability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
He had heard the doctor tell the white nurse to irrigate my head with Epsom salts and warm water every two or three hours or I wouldn’t make it.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Then come the chips: hot, sturdy, generously salted, piled into black woven baskets alongside ramekins of fire-engine-red mild salsa and a darker, spicier version flecked with onion and jalapeño.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Bishop’s worldly ruminations are salted with references to Saint-Exupéry, Plato and Nietzsche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
His colleagues are gleeful taste-testers, particularly when he brings in his famous salted caramel brownies.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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
On the long table sit two pots, one full of rice and the other salted grilled fish.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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Yet Mr. Kean seems at times a little too eager to prove that “The Museum of Lost Things” isn’t a traditional history book, salting his otherwise sturdy prose with the occasional vulgarity or glib joke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
Stupid Marysville had so much snow that winter that the town ran out of money to pay for the plowing and the salting and the sanding.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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