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a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement
he worked for NASA in its salad days
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There was a time, in its salad days, when Coachella felt like the American answer to Glastonbury; an oasis for music nerds that was a far cry from city festivals like Lollapalooza; a chance to live out an American Western fantasy soundtracked by Mastodon and Jay Z.
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Arielle Gordon, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
But the salad days of spiders and mosquitoes may only last a short while, with adult dowitchers wrangling their months-old babies and guiding them to warmth via the Pacific Flyway, a north-south migration route stretching from Alaska to Patagonia in South America.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Sitcoms and other comedy forms, of course, emerged since those midcentury salad days, but then, so did Saturday Night Live and MADtv and SCTV and Key & Peele and Inside Amy Schumer and In Living Color.
—Steven Zeitch, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Its founder’s salad days coincided with the hugest thing in drinks since Prohibition: the growth of the craft cocktail movement.
—Betsy Andrews, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 June 2025
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Arielle Gordon, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
But the salad days of spiders and mosquitoes may only last a short while, with adult dowitchers wrangling their months-old babies and guiding them to warmth via the Pacific Flyway, a north-south migration route stretching from Alaska to Patagonia in South America.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Sitcoms and other comedy forms, of course, emerged since those midcentury salad days, but then, so did Saturday Night Live and MADtv and SCTV and Key & Peele and Inside Amy Schumer and In Living Color.
—Steven Zeitch, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Its founder’s salad days coincided with the hugest thing in drinks since Prohibition: the growth of the craft cocktail movement.
—Betsy Andrews, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 June 2025
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“Salad days.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salad%20days. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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