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salient

[say-lee-uhnt, sayl-yuhnt] / ˈseɪ li ənt, ˈseɪl jənt /


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There is certainly salient evidence to the contrary: During the dot-com boom, the New York Stock Exchange advance-decline line peaked in 1998, data showed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

It eventually appeared in the paper but with many of the salient details left out.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Some, like the fifth installment, “Retribution” — which reorients the series to a much more salient, focused place — stand head and shoulders above others.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The players association presumably recognizes the most salient fact about the owners’ approach to labor relations, which is their history of of treating the players like peons and lying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The boy—and then the man—had one salient cognitive goal, although he didn’t express it openly: He wanted to understand.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

North of them, still fighting on the salients driven south and east from Lingayen Gulf and across the base of Bataan from Olongapo, were seven other divisions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a general staff's war maps, the charts were studded with varicolored pins, indicating danger points, quiet sectors or advancing salients in the industrial front.

From Time Magazine Archive

The entire eastern front blazed into action as other Red attacks were launched south of Leningrad, against the Belgorod, Donets and Mius River salients, at the Nazi bridgehead in the Caucasus.

From Time Magazine Archive

South Viet Nam, Malaysia and Thailand represent salients on the edge of China's sphere of influence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The line traced was two miles and a half long, following the recessions and salients.

From From Fort Henry to Corinth by M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force


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