salad

noun

ˈsa-ləd How to pronounce salad (audio)
Definition of saladnext
as in medley
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things the state senate must contend with a veritable salad of legislative measures before it can adjourn for the session

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Recent Examples of salad Tuna salad mashed into tender flakes, speckled with crisp celery, onion, and herbs. — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026 Uneaten salad scraps are dumped into the school's chicken coop. — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026 Plate lunches piled with kalua pig, rice and macaroni salad will make their debut in Kuna this week. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 2026 Try almonds or walnuts for a snack, add chia or flaxseeds to oatmeal or yogurt, or sprinkle pistachios on a salad. — Lindsey Desoto, HEALTH, 4 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for salad
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salad
  1. medley
  2. variety
  3. assortment
  4. jumble
  5. collage
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  • Sequenced at the center of a three-track medley, its death-dream logic deliberately evokes the SMiLE era’s dark, confusing edge.
    — Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Transfer the vegetable medley to a 13-by-18-by-1-inch sheet pan.
    — Candy Hom, AJC.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of medley
Noun
  • People heading into the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period with plans to sign up for insurance should expect a variety of changes in 2027, including higher premiums and fewer coverage options.
    — Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Arugula is a leafy green that can be incorporated into a variety of dishes from breakfast and lunch to dinner.
    — Molly Allen, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of variety
Noun
  • Outside the building were an assortment of generators, cables and Starlink dishes.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
  • That includes things like better marketing and potential resets to the product assortment.
    — Jeff Marks,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of assortment
Noun
  • Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
    — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of jumble
Noun
  • Phil Dunn, an acrylic artist and collage artist, made several of the tables.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Pollard has also been immersed in surrealism and dada, fitting genres for a musician and visual artist who has a knack for bending words and images to his will — either via hallucinatory lyrics or collages that mesh realms both physical and meta.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of collage

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