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noun

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plural of salt

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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verb

present tense third-person singular of salt

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

Noun

Pyroprocessing uses molten salts and electricity to separate and recover valuable nuclear materials from highly radioactive waste. —

Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026 Pick up salad dressing, greens, and seasoning salts from Dogpatch Urban Gardens. —

Jen Crystal, Midwest Living, 22 May 2026 The excess salts in the fertilizer draw moisture from the plants, causing the leaves to yellow, brown, or dry out. —

Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 19 May 2026 Nearly a century of evidence has demonstrated that the aluminum salts in vaccines, which aren’t the same as aluminum found in the environment, are safe. —

Aria Bendix, NBC news, 15 May 2026 Chowdhury added that reverse osmosis (RO) point-of-use systems and distillation can help remove salts from your tap water. —

Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 11 May 2026 While applying a fertilizer can benefit your plants, choosing a synthetic one can create a buildup of salts in the soil, says Phillips. —

Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 1 May 2026 The bathroom is beautifully designed in sage green and white, with open shelving for your wardrobe and there are three different kinds of salts next to the bathtub. —

Ann Lee, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026 Drop in at Salacia to craft salts from Southern botanicals. —

Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 30 Apr. 2026

Verb

The other thing that salts all of this is this is an unprecedented time in terms of organizational risk appetites. —

Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

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Docked nearby is the USS Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship home to nearly 3,000 sailors and Marines during deployment, including about 1,250 sailors and 1,800 Marines.

— Sarah Alegre, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
However, the Aussies pushed the boat a little too hard, nosediving hard into the Hudson, a sudden stop that didn’t cause any injury to the sailors but resulted in damage to the front crossbeam and port-side foil case.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 31 May 2026