nonsaline

adjective

Definition of nonsalinenext
as in freshwater

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  1. freshwater
  2. pure
Adjective
  • The golden mussel, a freshwater mollusk native to Southeast Asia, was first detected in North America in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in October 2024.
    — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
  • The beavers’ work has also created a mosaic of different habitats, encouraging other animals to flock to the site, including birds, butterflies, bats and even freshwater shrimp and fish.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
Definition of freshwater
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  • The achievement shows how OpenAI and other AI firms are heavily investing in pure mathematics as a way to benchmark the technology’s ascent towards reasoning—and the strange directions those efforts often take.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 14 July 2026
  • There were new artists emerging who were sort of pure electronic artists like Kraftwerk and Gary Numan and so on.
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 14 July 2026
Definition of pure
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“Nonsaline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsaline. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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