salient
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And the issue has become more salient since the Oct.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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 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 most salient point is that ‘anything but China’ and the whole mantra of ‘China is uninvestible’ died,” said says Louis Gave, co-founder of Gavekal.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
It seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground again; and so I took note of some salient point, and found that this was so.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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But as the week went on, the Iranian defenses hardened and the Iraqis found themselves pressed to maintain their salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The heaviest fighting was apparently concentrated at the cutting edge of two bulging Chinese salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They had won Vilna and Grodno, but they had failed to cut off the troops in these salients, and had not made good the line of the Dvina.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by James Edward Parrott
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