as in varieties
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 salads
If you're done with dinner but not yet ready to head home, climb the stairs to My New Joint—a cocktail lounge, tapas bar, and music venue—for freshly shucked oysters from the east and west coasts of the USA, an adult beverage (or three), and a menu of salads, fondues, and desserts.
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Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
20 June 2026
The Pool Grill is another casual option, with things like burgers and salads.
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Susan B. Barnes,
Travel + Leisure,
20 June 2026
Whole fish beautifully grilled, bright and light crudos and tartares, lamb chops, and Mediterranean vegetables and salads that speak to the season.
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Shivani Vora,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Avocado can also easily be incorporated into salads or bowls.
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Jennifer Lefton,
Verywell Health,
18 June 2026
The new salads feature more protein choices with steak and shrimp, along with new salad toppings and dressings.
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Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
Cucumbers are a summertime staple in the garden, enhancing the flavor of salads, sandwiches, and other seasonal dishes.
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Sj McShane,
Martha Stewart,
18 June 2026
Legumes — lentils, chickpeas, fava beans and white beans — anchor some of the easiest high-fiber Mediterranean diet recipes and work in everything from soups and stews to salads and grain bowls.
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Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
MoJo’s Local serves a selection of burgers, sandwiches and salads, as well as a lineup of bar snacks such as street tacos, pretzels and chicken wings.
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Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
20 June 2026
The Pool Grill is another casual option, with things like burgers and salads.
—
Susan B. Barnes,
Travel + Leisure,
20 June 2026
Whole fish beautifully grilled, bright and light crudos and tartares, lamb chops, and Mediterranean vegetables and salads that speak to the season.
—
Shivani Vora,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Avocado can also easily be incorporated into salads or bowls.
—
Jennifer Lefton,
Verywell Health,
18 June 2026
The new salads feature more protein choices with steak and shrimp, along with new salad toppings and dressings.
—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
Cucumbers are a summertime staple in the garden, enhancing the flavor of salads, sandwiches, and other seasonal dishes.
—
Sj McShane,
Martha Stewart,
18 June 2026
Legumes — lentils, chickpeas, fava beans and white beans — anchor some of the easiest high-fiber Mediterranean diet recipes and work in everything from soups and stews to salads and grain bowls.
—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
MoJo’s Local serves a selection of burgers, sandwiches and salads, as well as a lineup of bar snacks such as street tacos, pretzels and chicken wings.
—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salads
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The wines nod to both Rhône and Bordeaux varieties grown across three estate vineyards in the Rocks District and Yakima Valley, with room for quirks such as Picpoul and the Portuguese Tinta Cão that grow almost nowhere else in the country.
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The bakery will offer more than 150 varieties of breads, pastries and desserts.
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Where assortments were once strongly driven by trends, today the starting point is the customer.
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The assortments give shoppers a chance to try several scent profiles without committing to one full-size luxury bottle.
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Lowlights included uninspiring medleys.
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For the elder millennials, the bittersweet spot was the medleys of older Kanye cuts released from 2004 to 2016 (think The College Dropout to The Life of Pablo).
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New designs are layered on top of old, creating accidental collages between eras.
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Hockney’s paintings and drawings, as well as his later photo collages and digital works, invariably had a playful, exploratory, interrogative relationship with perspective, light, scale, framing, rendering—the basic components of picture-making.
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
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Add beans to soups, stews, and salads for a boost of satiating nutrients, says Howard.
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Cooked amaranth has a slightly earthy, porridge-like texture that works well as a breakfast bowl with fruit and honey, as a rice substitute under curries and stews, or as a stuffing for roasted squash.
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“Salads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salads. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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