salience
Example Sentences
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But what gives them their current salience—besides cozy sit-downs with the nation’s top media celebrity—is their claim, a plausible one, to be speaking for others.
It gave the issue of accidental releases from prison a salience and prominence it hadn't had until then.
From BBC
Some rate setters were worried about the faster rise in food prices this year, since they have greater “salience” for inflation expectations given the frequency with which they are purchased.
As Congress wakes up from its self-imposed slumber to face the prospect of yet another government shutdown showdown, what Vought said has particular salience.
From Salon
The prominence of the issue of asylum, particularly the rows about the Bell Hotel in Epping in Essex, gave a salience to a theme Reform regard as their own.
From BBC
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