salient
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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
Such wheezes aren’t the most salient feature of the screenplay, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The salient policy question was clear: Should the United States declare war on France or seek a diplomatic solution?
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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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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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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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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
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It is not straight, for it curves and sags and has its salients and re-entrant angles; and it is not a line, for it has breadth as well as length.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
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