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brine

noun

ˈbrīn

as in sea

the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three-fourths of the earth for hundreds of years people from Atlantic Canada have made their living from the brine

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Recent Examples of brine Alex Garcia’s cheeseburger tartare is a mound of rib-eye sliced by hand into dice-sized squares of meat, dressed in a vinaigrette that zips with pickle brine, soy, mustard and even a squirt or two of ketchup. —

Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026 Here, vast reserves of lithium — essential for the batteries powering our electric future — are available via a more sustainable geothermal brine extraction. —

Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 Be aware that sodium nitrite is added to the brine to prevent bacterial growth and to give the meat its characteristic pink color. —

Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2026 The township of Edison, New Jersey, reduced its spending on salt and brine by 35% and its insurance payouts by 60%, thanks to video that helped prove plow drivers usually weren’t at fault when the vehicles collided with another motorist’s car. —

Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for brine

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The phone, believed to hold possible evidence against her, was later recovered in the sea.

— JULIA FRANKEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
With the Strait effectively blocked and hundreds of tankers stranded, many millions of barrels of oil are stuck at sea.

— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026