salience
Example Sentences
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CAHILLANE: There’s no such thing as a forever brand, where because it has so much salience people are just going to continue to buy it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
After the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, such threats likely have more salience now.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026
This is along with what she called the "growing salience of nuclear weapons".
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
The salience of both news organizations is waning.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
In what M. Place calls portes ornées, this ornamental archivolt is of enamelled bricks, in the subordinate entrances it is distinguished from the rest of the wall merely by its salience.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir