salient
Example Sentences
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But the newly salient issue is rising electricity rates.
In the end, though, senior officials agreed that the arguments for a quarter-point cut “were considered more salient.”
The more salient fact about the natcons is that most do not understand the U.S. as a nation founded on the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The only salient question the novel poses is whether he will be found out.
However good or bad the press is, our system of government demands it be unfettered — not on the faith of finding salient facts, but on the mere chance of doing so.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
