as in bloom
a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement
he worked for NASA in its salad days
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Samuel also looks slow coming out of his breaks, a dire sign for a receiver who was never good at beating press coverage, even in the salad days.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
But the Fed’s rate cut is cutting into banks’ net interest income, and has some worried the salad days are over.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2024
In the salad days when Beijing was giving the industry a lot of support, these local authorities found ways to involve themselves in the effort through direct investments in EV producers or taking out loans and issuing bonds on behalf of these manufacturers.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
The salad days that came with the old model have been thrown out, so now nobody knows how to make money.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
But the Fed’s rate cut is cutting into banks’ net interest income, and has some worried the salad days are over.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2024
In the salad days when Beijing was giving the industry a lot of support, these local authorities found ways to involve themselves in the effort through direct investments in EV producers or taking out loans and issuing bonds on behalf of these manufacturers.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
The salad days that came with the old model have been thrown out, so now nobody knows how to make money.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for salad days
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“Salad days.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salad%20days. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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