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salient

[say-lee-uhnt, sayl-yuhnt] / ˈseɪ li ənt, ˈseɪl jənt /


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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

Some, like the fifth installment, “Retribution” — which reorients the series to a much more salient, focused place — stand head and shoulders above others.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

In division, you start by summarizing the salient points of agreement, then set out the points that are at issue.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not straight, for it curves and sags and has its salients and re-entrant angles; and it is not a line, for it has breadth as well as length.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan


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