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
Standard Lithium is hoping to use a process called direct lithium extraction to create lithium carbonate from the salty brine in the Smackover Formation, a geological area including parts of south Arkansas and east Texas and stretching to parts of the Florida Panhandle.
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Brett Barrouquere, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2025
Start with pickled okra and build flavor with brine and a crispy coating.
—Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 12 June 2025
The richness of yogurt helps balance the acidity of the pickle brine.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2025
Pickling cucumbers are smaller with bumpy skins and a firmer texture, ideal for preserving in vinegar or brine.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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Brett Barrouquere, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2025
Start with pickled okra and build flavor with brine and a crispy coating.
—Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 12 June 2025
The richness of yogurt helps balance the acidity of the pickle brine.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2025
Pickling cucumbers are smaller with bumpy skins and a firmer texture, ideal for preserving in vinegar or brine.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brine
Noun
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Industry cloud solutions can be customized for those specific systems, simplifying the cloud migration process and the eventual creation of data analytics from a sea of information.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Others see the three circles and two wavy lines as a symbol of the three continents and two seas ruled by the sultans—Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Mediterranean and the Black Seas.—
Dorothy Armstrong
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
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The two side boosters returned for a land landing at Landing Zones 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station while the center core stage fell into the ocean.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 June 2025
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Barracudas are prominent predatory fish found in tropical and subtropical oceans, including the Caribbean Sea.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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“Brine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brine. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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