salting

Definition of saltingnext
present participle of salt

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of salting The goal is for salting to become muscle memory, your fingers an extension of your brain and your palate. Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026 Make ahead by salting and drying the tomatoes a few hours in advance, baking the crust earlier the same day, and assembling just before the final bake. Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 26 June 2026 Let sit until ready to use (salting will pull out excess moisture from tomatoes). Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 June 2026 Some cucumber salad recipes call for salting and draining the cucumbers. Martha Stewart, 15 May 2026 State police said a Wayne County plow truck was salting the left lane of the highway when the driver of a 2004 Toyota passenger car sideswiped the salt truck. Paula Wethington, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026 New York City Department of Sanitation garbage trucks, tasked with moving snow and salting streets, and city buses passed by every few minutes. Christopher Cann, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026 City workers are plowing and salting the streets so emergency vehicles can safely travel. Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salting
Verb
  • Dow stood with three tattooed and shirtless jumpers, weaving white paracord through hooks in the canvas and cinching it tight.
    M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Ousmane Kromah had a weaving 52-yard run in the fourth quarter.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In another study, mixing in lentils with rice or instant potatoes resulted in lower blood sugar than eating the rice or potatoes alone.
    Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2026
  • By taking stem cells from a host’s own body and encouraging them to differentiate before mixing them with a commercially available, soluble matrix gel, researchers may have cracked the most critical problems in the transplant process.
    Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Sadly, the production was a downer, draining Kushner’s masterpiece of color and humor and inserting, in their place, gloomy projections of cityscapes and, unaccountably, David Bowie songs.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Extending Zero Trust To Code Applying zero trust to code execution does not mean inserting manual review into every software path or replacing controls such as EDR, vulnerability management, SAST, SCA, SBOMs, signing or provenance.
    Ken Ammon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Myers spoke vaguely about winning and losing, while interspersing clips of Ultimate Fighting Championship interviews with fighters after matches.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Arrange the citrus beautifully — interspersing different colors and sizes — on a serving platter.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The calculation refers to nominal total returns, combining coupon income and changes in the bond's market price.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • By combining central load absorption, multi-axis flexibility, and active retraction control, the Robotrax system offers plant engineers and system integrators a reliable path toward maximizing robot uptime and reducing total operational costs.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2026

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“Salting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salting. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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