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

But what gives the row political salience now is Sir Keir Starmer's decision to send Lord Mandelson to Washington a year ago.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

The salience of both news organizations is waning.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

This reward pathway regulates motivation, reinforces learning, and activates incentive salience, which is a cognitive process that makes us experience “desire” or “want.”

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025

Its salience is another matter; but it has to be remembered that though the scene acts vividly, it acts slowly, in relation to its length.

From The Craft of Fiction by Lubbock, Percy