salient

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Donnelly isn’t inclined to recommend shorting silver here but his salient message is this: “It’s worth noting that after 100% rallies in a single year, forward returns are bad.”

From MarketWatch

But the newly salient issue is rising electricity rates.

From The Wall Street Journal

The particulars of the indictment against former President Donald J. Trump have yet to be revealed, but the salient details are heaven-made for headlines and screen crawls:

From New York Times

Perhaps their most potent claim was that there had been no significant change in electoral turnover, arguably the most salient significant indicator of democracy.

From Salon

And yet what has kept Trump afloat for so long, what has helped him evade ruin and prosecution, is perhaps his most salient quality: he is shameless.

From Salon