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
After the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, such threats likely have more salience now.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 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
He intended to front the mass of the edifice with a majestic colonnade, giving externally to one limb of the Greek cross a rectangular salience corresponding to its three semicircular apses.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
