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
The salience of both news organizations is waning.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
It gave the issue of accidental releases from prison a salience and prominence it hadn't had until then.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
This reward pathway regulates motivation, reinforces learning, and activates incentive salience, which is a cognitive process that makes us experience “desire” or “want.”
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025
At this moment her life was a foolish quandary of being unable to figure out if there was more salience in trying to reestablish family ties or independent strivings at all cost.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
