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The question is particularly salient to Anthropic and OpenAI given their upcoming initial public offerings: If customers don’t think it’s worth paying high prices for the most sophisticated AI models, why should investors?

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 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

In District 3, the Palisades fire has been more salient because the district contains the conflagration’s entire burn zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

The answer, then, to the salient question—What were these two prominent American statesmen doing on that ledge beneath the plains of Weehawken?—is reasonably clear.

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

Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate.

From Time Magazine Archive

But as the week went on, the Iranian defenses hardened and the Iraqis found themselves pressed to maintain their salients.

From Time Magazine Archive

North of them, still fighting on the salients driven south and east from Lingayen Gulf and across the base of Bataan from Olongapo, were seven other divisions.

From Time Magazine Archive

The heaviest fighting was apparently concentrated at the cutting edge of two bulging Chinese salients.

From Time Magazine Archive

The road wound about in a most ridiculous way, making salients out of ploughed fields on either side.

From Bullets & Billets by Bairnsfather, Bruce