salience
Example Sentences
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Economists have found that round-number prices for retail items have salience with consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The salience of both news organizations is waning.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
It gave the issue of accidental releases from prison a salience and prominence it hadn't had until then.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
I had landed here for my fateful drive because of its climate salience, as well as its award-winning Hummer dealership, Sheehan Buick GMC.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025
The Olympic burlesques were slightly funnier, and not nearly so coarse as their forerunners; but they were still of no striking salience.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various