salient
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He also wrote that apparent ethnicity can be a relevant factor in immigration stops when considered alongside other salient factors and that reasonable suspicion permits brief stops for questioning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
So when the bond market takes different views on different parts of the AI financing market, it can be a good guide to what investors view as the most salient risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
In division, you start by summarizing the salient points of agreement, then set out the points that are at issue.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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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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One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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South Viet Nam, Malaysia and Thailand represent salients on the edge of China's sphere of influence.
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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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The form was that of a Greek cross, with a central dome a hundred and forty-eight feet high, and eight towers at the salients of seventy feet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
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