salient
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There’s other data making a salient argument for hikes in October and December, said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist for Nationwide.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The second salient point to consider is that the play has virtually no basis in historical truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
It eventually appeared in the paper but with many of the salient details left out.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The players association presumably recognizes the most salient fact about the owners’ approach to labor relations, which is their history of of treating the players like peons and lying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
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Like a general staff's war maps, the charts were studded with varicolored pins, indicating danger points, quiet sectors or advancing salients in the industrial front.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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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Trench Armament.—A few machine guns are set in concealed emplacements along the trench to cover important salients.
From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker
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