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He also wrote that apparent ethnicity can be a relevant factor in immigration stops when considered alongside other salient factors and that reasonable suspicion permits brief stops for questioning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

There’s other data making a salient argument for hikes in October and December, said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist for Nationwide.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The salient point is that this project fell victim to as much incompetence as you’d expect, and no criminality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

It was a river of iridescent onyx—Mrs. Shigemura described it in Japanese—the salient feature of her physical being, as prominent and extraordinary as baldness might have been in another girl of the same age.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

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

One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients.

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

On the defense machine guns should be mounted in salients and at points where cross fire can be obtained.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss