salient
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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
There is certainly salient evidence to the contrary: During the dot-com boom, the New York Stock Exchange advance-decline line peaked in 1998, data showed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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
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
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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
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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
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Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The heaviest fighting was apparently concentrated at the cutting edge of two bulging Chinese salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Between the attacks which developed these salients there were also some unsuccessful attacks of almost equal power.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Francis Andrew March
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