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Denton’s appointment was perhaps the most salient detail in Nike’s announcement on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 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 more one looks at the chief characters in this scene and listens to their voices, the more the salient question changes.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But as the week went on, the Iranian defenses hardened and the Iraqis found themselves pressed to maintain their salients.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Bombing used at this time to be practised by small sections in each battalion, who occupied dangerous salients called "bird-cages" in the fire trenches.

From With Manchesters in the East by Hurst, Gerald B. (Gerald Berkeley), Sir