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
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Ice-melting salts do tend to leach out of the soil over time.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
The sweat-stopping, often controversial ingredient certainly had a reputation back then (see above), but experts say there has been no hard data to suggest there’s a connection between the aluminum salts in antiperspirant and the development of breast cancer.
—Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 27 Feb. 2026
Aluminum salts in vaccines might pose a health risk.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
De-icing products such as anti-freeze and salts can be toxic to pets, experts say.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
For high-temperature liquids like molten salts, a custom densitometer utilizes the Archimedes principle to measure density.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026
There are several clear differences between Purple Heat and other sidewalk salts.
—Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 16 Feb. 2026
Larger stumps may resist salts or chemicals, and may continue to resprout new shoots or harbor pests and fungi for a long while.
—Steven John, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
In the past, scientists have taken a number of approaches to this problem, such as heat treatment, hydroponics, liquid salts (known as ionic liquids) and electro-deoxidation that on Earth is used to break down contaminants in wastewater.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Ice-melting salts do tend to leach out of the soil over time.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
The sweat-stopping, often controversial ingredient certainly had a reputation back then (see above), but experts say there has been no hard data to suggest there’s a connection between the aluminum salts in antiperspirant and the development of breast cancer.
—Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 27 Feb. 2026
Aluminum salts in vaccines might pose a health risk.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
De-icing products such as anti-freeze and salts can be toxic to pets, experts say.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
For high-temperature liquids like molten salts, a custom densitometer utilizes the Archimedes principle to measure density.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026
There are several clear differences between Purple Heat and other sidewalk salts.
—Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 16 Feb. 2026
Larger stumps may resist salts or chemicals, and may continue to resprout new shoots or harbor pests and fungi for a long while.
—Steven John, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salts
Noun
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Another vessel, the IRIS Bushehr, requested assistance from Sri Lanka and more than 200 sailors were brought ashore.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Another Iranian vessel, the IRIS Bushehr, requested assistance from Sri Lanka, where more than 200 sailors were being brought ashore.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Celebrity nail artist Kim Truong mixes a light pink chrome polish from Toy’s x Inity and polishes from PLA’s Fashionably Light collection to get that ethereal vibe going.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
8 Mar. 2026
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Quicksand forms when water mixes with fine sand or clay.—
Outside,
Outside,
5 Mar. 2026
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In the case of Galaxidi, however, the flour war seems to be of more recent vintage, namely from the 19th century, when traveling mariners took their inspiration from similar happenings in Sicily.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Feb. 2026
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This will be a dangerous storm for mariners — with the potential for at least 25-foot seas offshore.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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Another great trail in the area is the DuPont Waterfalls run in DuPont State Recreational Forest, a six-mile route that weaves by Hooker Falls, Triple Falls, and High Falls.—
Kristine Thomason,
Outside,
9 Mar. 2026
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Extremely tight ponytails or other styles, heavy tracks of hair extensions, weaves and cosmetic heat treatments that pull on our hair can also attribute to hair loss, according to American Academy of Dermatology Association.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
8 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, Catherine’s ignored handmaid, Nelly (Hong Chau), inserts herself into everyone’s drama out of pique.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps most perceptively captivating is the sweetly cunning way Marczak inserts himself into the film.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2026
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This delicious treat combines Chick-fil-A Lemonade (or Diet Lemonade) and the signature Icedream dessert mixed with strawberry and hibiscus flavors.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026
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Much like Catastrophe, Derry Girls combines irreverent farce with weightier issues that sometimes take you by surprise but never betray the series’ light-hearted metier.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Mar. 2026
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Templeton intersperses these pictures with fragments from her teen diaries.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2025
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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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Its design also incorporates a variable air inlet system to maintain stable airflow as speeds increase.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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An architect by training, Censori, 31, has been an enigmatic and largely silent fixture in West’s orbit for years, making her statements mostly through provocative performance art that often incorporates public nudity.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Salts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salts. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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