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
The mere practice and etiquette of it brought the gentlewoman in her into a lovely salience.
From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
