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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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Recent Examples of salad days
No Broncos quarterback has logged stats like this since the salad days of Peyton Manning.
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2025
Timothée Chalamet stars as the beloved singer-songwriter in his salad days, as a 19-year-old in 1960s New York.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2025
Timothée Chalamet stars as the beloved singer-songwriter in his salad days, as a 19-year-old in 1960s New York.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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 17 Jun. 2025.
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