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salt

[sawlt] / sɔlt /


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To start, whisk together Parmesan, lemon juice, oil, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt and pepper.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Woe betide the philistine who requests a salt shaker or asks that a meticulously prepared dish be spice-bombed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Before being taken to hospital, he endured 21 days in Delhi's scorching summer heat on nothing but salt and water.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Toss 2 cups of small sourdough cubes with 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom and a pinch of kosher salt.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

The salt spray of the waves flew in his face; he caught some and rubbed it into his skin: his hands and wrists and forehead.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

Spent firecrackers scatter residue that contains partially burned fuel, metal salts, additives, and pieces of charred packaging.

From Science Daily Jul. 4, 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

The problem is similar to mineral scale building up inside a tea kettle or clogging a shower head over time, except seawater contains far higher concentrations of dissolved salts.

From Science Daily May 31, 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

A few tips: I prefer using unsalted over salted butter since it lets me go crazy with the flaky sea salt, which adds a nice crunch to an otherwise soft snack.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

You can very easily make salted corn chips at home with some corn flour, oil, and salt.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

There’s also République, the French-inspired bakery and cafe known for its salted caramel chocolate cake.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

He leaned back, rubbing both hands over his thinning hair, now salted with gray, and asked me how I had enjoyed my internship.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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

A handful of methods — braising, salting, slow simmering, sweating — can turn the overlooked into something extraordinary.

From Salon Dec. 30, 2025

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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