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From a military point of view, the most salient aspect is the failure of Russian power in and around the Black Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Denton’s appointment was perhaps the most salient detail in Nike’s announcement on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Rarely does the movie hit on any salient points that the series hasn’t already made, opting instead to repeat narrative patterns and jerk a few tears here and there.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

In some of those pockets, homelessness and street crime are the most salient issues facing the city, and Pratt’s apocalyptic talk about them landed as a tonic.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

The more one looks at the chief characters in this scene and listens to their voices, the more the salient question changes.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Last week, on one of Wall Street's sorest salients, there was Peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fort William Henry and Ticonderoga, situated at either end of the lake, were the salients respectively of the two most powerful nations upon the globe.

From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce