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
At Libre, her mezcal and dessert bar, Gonzalez Martinez makes a strawberry chamoy thick enough to pipe onto pineapple sorbet and mixes chamoy with pickle brine from a local company for a unique version of pickled chamoy.
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The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Geothermal plants create steam power from boiling, mineral-rich brine drawn from deep under geothermal fields.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Cucumbers, spices and pickling brine will be provided.
—Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
The brine itself should be room temperature or colder before adding the chicken parts and should totally cover the chicken.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
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The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Geothermal plants create steam power from boiling, mineral-rich brine drawn from deep under geothermal fields.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Cucumbers, spices and pickling brine will be provided.
—Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
The brine itself should be room temperature or colder before adding the chicken parts and should totally cover the chicken.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brine
Noun
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And then the sea sent the boat shooting upward again, to the crest of a wave, the sky a blanket of stars.—
Martin Suarez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
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Clark, who knelt beside Foo 30 years ago when the surfer was pulled lifeless from the sea, watched Slebir’s epic ride that day from the back of a Sea-Doo, set up to pull flailing surfers aboard.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Restaurant Mola Mola At the southern tip of Ishigaki inside Ishigaki Seaside Hotel, Mola Mola offers sweeping ocean views and an impressive buffet.—
Kaila Yu,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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But these aerosols could also deplete the ozone layer or worsen ocean acidification.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Brine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brine. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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