salient
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Therefore, beyond the actual numbers, the more salient information for investors is how much of the refunds will flow to their bottom lines.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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
In some of those pockets, homelessness and street crime are the most salient issues facing the city, and Pratt’s apocalyptic talk about them landed as a tonic.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
In District 3, the Palisades fire has been more salient because the district contains the conflagration’s entire burn zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
It was a river of iridescent onyx—Mrs. Shigemura described it in Japanese—the salient feature of her physical being, as prominent and extraordinary as baldness might have been in another girl of the same age.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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South Viet Nam, Malaysia and Thailand represent salients on the edge of China's sphere of influence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week, on one of Wall Street's sorest salients, there was Peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It seems to be the lot of the P.P.s to get into salients.
From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Palmer, Frederick
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