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salient

[sey-lee-uhnt, seyl-yuhnt] / ˈseɪ li ənt, ˈseɪl jənt /


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Therefore, beyond the actual numbers, the more salient information for investors is how much of the refunds will flow to their bottom lines.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 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

In some of those pockets, homelessness and street crime are the most salient issues facing the city, and Pratt’s apocalyptic talk about them landed as a tonic.

From Slate Jun. 9, 2026

In District 3, the Palisades fire has been more salient because the district contains the conflagration’s entire burn zone.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

The boy—and then the man—had one salient cognitive goal, although he didn’t express it openly: He wanted to understand.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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 heaviest fighting was apparently concentrated at the cutting edge of two bulging Chinese salients.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients.

From Time Magazine Archive

He provides a very large re-entering place of arms, also with a keep, the ditches of which are carefully traced so as to be protected from enfilade by the salients of the ravelin and bastion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various




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