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Via the cinematic hyperbole of bloodlust and explosions, “The Dog Stars” makes a salient point that we’ll seize on any excuse to settle into our own camps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

Right now, corruption and accountability are particularly salient for both voters and lawmakers.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 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

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

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

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

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

And our trench-line, with its infinity of salients and re-entrants, is itself only part of the great salient of "Wipers."

From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay