salience
Example Sentences
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Economists have found that round-number prices for retail items have salience with consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
After the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, such threats likely have more salience now.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026
The salience of both news organizations is waning.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
It gave the issue of accidental releases from prison a salience and prominence it hadn't had until then.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
How foreign he appeared to the ardent spirit who had dominated the dark; how emptied of the heat of imagination, how worn, how dry; and even in his salience, how singularly pathetic!
From The Coast of Chance by Underwood, Clarence F.
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