salient
Example Sentences
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The chorus—here the superb Clarion Choir—reinforces the moral lessons at salient points.
Likewise, the Fed’s staff inflation forecast described an interval of more persistent, above-target inflation as “a salient risk,” according to the minutes.
While those families aren’t eligible to vote, Kogan said, their treatment by the federal government could “change the types of issues that are salient in those communities.”
From Salon
The most important exits in this batch are withdrawals from treaties, most saliently the U.N.
Standing in front of him every day and trying to ask him salient questions was often futile.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
