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a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement
he worked for NASA in its salad days
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Against a Rockets team featuring his old pal Kevin Durant, against an organization that anyone who went through the salad days truly, deeply loathes, Green dialed up the intensity and put on a defensive masterclass.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
April 10–12 and April 17–19 Coachella Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, and, perhaps most intriguingly, Justin Bieber are the headliners; the lineup also includes Katseye, FKA Twigs, Geese, Sombr, Ethel Cain, and, for millennials chasing their salad days, the Strokes and Foster the People.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
Internet pioneer Yahoo was a goliath in its late 1990s salad days, when web portals and search engines were as influential as AI is today in reshaping the tech landscape.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
There was a time, in its salad days, when Coachella felt like the American answer to Glastonbury; an oasis for music nerds that was a far cry from city festivals like Lollapalooza; a chance to live out an American Western fantasy soundtracked by Mastodon and Jay Z.
—Arielle Gordon, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
April 10–12 and April 17–19 Coachella Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, and, perhaps most intriguingly, Justin Bieber are the headliners; the lineup also includes Katseye, FKA Twigs, Geese, Sombr, Ethel Cain, and, for millennials chasing their salad days, the Strokes and Foster the People.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
Internet pioneer Yahoo was a goliath in its late 1990s salad days, when web portals and search engines were as influential as AI is today in reshaping the tech landscape.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
There was a time, in its salad days, when Coachella felt like the American answer to Glastonbury; an oasis for music nerds that was a far cry from city festivals like Lollapalooza; a chance to live out an American Western fantasy soundtracked by Mastodon and Jay Z.
—Arielle Gordon, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Salad days.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salad%20days. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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