as in sailors
one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel
an old salt who taught me everything I know about sailing and the sea
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as in mixes
to scatter or set here and there among other things
the old sailor salted his tale of the voyage with crude anecdotes and rough language
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Recent Examples of salts
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
For almost a century, some important vaccines, including shots that protect against diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis and the flu, have included aluminum salts, compounds that contain small amounts of aluminum.
—NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
Multivitamins, oral rehydration salts, and electrolyte supplements can help, if available.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
More importantly there’d be no life, as salts play a crucial part in the world’s biology and ecology.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Many dyes rely on mordants—metallic salts used to fix color to fabric—that can range from benign to environmentally harmful.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
Among these compounds are salts called electrolytes, which could suppress charge separation between gas bubbles.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Magnesium salts like magnesium oxide are more likely to reduce iron absorption.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Oct. 2025
Iron salts dissolve in the mouth to produce a metallic taste.
—Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
This is achieved by heating molten salts, which retain energy efficiently and can later release it to power turbines.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
For almost a century, some important vaccines, including shots that protect against diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis and the flu, have included aluminum salts, compounds that contain small amounts of aluminum.
—NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
Multivitamins, oral rehydration salts, and electrolyte supplements can help, if available.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
More importantly there’d be no life, as salts play a crucial part in the world’s biology and ecology.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Many dyes rely on mordants—metallic salts used to fix color to fabric—that can range from benign to environmentally harmful.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
Among these compounds are salts called electrolytes, which could suppress charge separation between gas bubbles.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Magnesium salts like magnesium oxide are more likely to reduce iron absorption.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Oct. 2025
Iron salts dissolve in the mouth to produce a metallic taste.
—Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salts
Noun
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The original bell was replaced on the underwater ship with a replica, engraved with the 29 sailors' names on it.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Small crafts include owners of small to medium sized motor and sail boats, affecting fisherman, para-sailors, windsurfers and canoe paddlers.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Smoke from debris fires mixes with a faint tang of fuel from the few generators that still have gas.—
David Culver,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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While other down jackets feature down filling all over, the Aconcagua 3 mixes traditional down with synthetic insulation in the torso, which improves its breathability and maximizes warmth and moisture resistance.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Nov. 2025
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By aiding mariners, Airy believed, such measurements provided a tangible service to the state that the newfangled spectroscopy might not be able to match.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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The alert calls for heightened caution from mariners, especially in shallow waters.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Directed by Kewsong Lee Artistic Director Lear deBessonet (Once Upon a Mattress, Into the Woods), the musical weaves fictional narratives with real historical figures and events.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Gran Vilaya Trek weaves a tapestry of natural and cultural wonders, winding through more than 30 miles of ancient cloud forests and pre-Incan archaeological remains.—
Ally Jaksen,
Outside,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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After a flashback-heavy opening that inserts Hemsworth into major moments from the show's past, Season 4 finds our fair witchy family split by the hands of fate, once again.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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However, the real ineptitude occurs a little earlier when River interprets a fight that Gimball has with Jaffrey’s chief of staff, Tyson Bowman (Abraham Popoola), as a physical attack and inserts himself into the scene, setting off this tragicomic series of events.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Poppy seed dressing, popularized in the 1950s, combines sugar, vinegar, mustard, onion and oil with poppy seeds.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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His keen playful writing combines magical realism, genre-busting humor, literary zip—and there are few people better suited to adapting Wilder than Ethan Lipton.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Greengrass intersperses those blistering moments with scenes of firefighters and other authorities talking about how to deal with the fire and filling in plot points away from the action.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Private property intersperses protected areas.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
20 Sep. 2025
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The interior also incorporates great tech.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Throughout the home, the couple incorporates a variety of pieces either sourced or created by hand themselves.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Salts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salts. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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