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Via the cinematic hyperbole of bloodlust and explosions, “The Dog Stars” makes a salient point that we’ll seize on any excuse to settle into our own camps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

And the issue has become more salient since the Oct.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The question is particularly salient to Anthropic and OpenAI given their upcoming initial public offerings: If customers don’t think it’s worth paying high prices for the most sophisticated AI models, why should investors?

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 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

That doesn’t happen often, but—and here is the absolutely salient point—once would be enough.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The Germans now became a menace on the borders of the wood, where they impinged on a number of awkward pockets or little salients.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various