salience
Example Sentences
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Economists have found that round-number prices for retail items have salience with consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The salience of both news organizations is waning.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
It gave the issue of accidental releases from prison a salience and prominence it hadn't had until then.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
This reward pathway regulates motivation, reinforces learning, and activates incentive salience, which is a cognitive process that makes us experience “desire” or “want.”
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025
That's it, the silver nail, the recurrence of it in the right place, the perfection of the salience of each, and the trick is played.
From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert
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