salient

Example Sentences

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While those families aren’t eligible to vote, Kogan said, their treatment by the federal government could “change the types of issues that are salient in those communities.”

From Salon

The most important exits in this batch are withdrawals from treaties, most saliently the U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal

Standing in front of him every day and trying to ask him salient questions was often futile.

From Salon

“Households remember salient price increases — eggs, meat, child care, home repairs — far more vividly than aggregate statistics. These memory effects persist for years or even generations.”

From Los Angeles Times

The study, titled "Primate gut microbiota induce evolutionarily salient changes in mouse neurodevelopment," was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

From Science Daily