salient
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And the issue has become more salient since the Oct.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Therefore, beyond the actual numbers, the more salient information for investors is how much of the refunds will flow to their bottom lines.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Rarely does the movie hit on any salient points that the series hasn’t already made, opting instead to repeat narrative patterns and jerk a few tears here and there.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
In District 3, the Palisades fire has been more salient because the district contains the conflagration’s entire burn zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
South Viet Nam, Malaysia and Thailand represent salients on the edge of China's sphere of influence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heaviest fighting was apparently concentrated at the cutting edge of two bulging Chinese salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
He peered into slits, glanced at the machicolations aloft, measured salients and re-entrants and dead-ground with his eyes.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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