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salient
adjective as in noticeable, important
Example Sentences
Perhaps the most salient point regarding Davis is that he could stay healthy and atop the Falcons’ depth chart and still put his fantasy managers at a deficit.
Those two ingredients—foam and plate—are also the salient features of the Vaporfly and comparable marathon shoes, but there are some differences.
Dopamine doesn’t just make us feel good, it also serves the purpose of telling our brain what is “salient.”
As our nation continues to open, we can hope that tempers will cool, tensions will ease, and a person’s positions on the virus will become less salient to their partisan identity.
The software was designed to estimate which part of a photo would be considered most “salient” or important to see first and was trained with human eye-tracking data, Twitter said.
And, with an estimated 70 million gay people in China, there has never been a more salient time to turn the corner.
He is also known as El H, but of all his nicknames El Elegante is the most salient.
One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders.
But in the aggregate, immigration reform is not a salient issue for white evangelicals.
When I sit down someday to write my memoirs and try to characterize this era, I will note three salient political features.
She is skilful in seizing salient characteristics, and her chief aim is to preserve the individuality of her sitters and models.
His head leaned towards her with its salient thrust, its poise of impetus and forward flight.
It may not be unwise to review the grounds that we have been going over, and to glance at the salient points.
But General Lee abandoned the salient after dark, and put his whole force in the base line.
In this salient, now known as the “Bloody Angle,” occurred one of the most terrible hand-to-hand conflicts of modern warfare.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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