saliency

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Time was, America’s aspiration was for preoccupations with racial, sexual and ethnic differences to lose political saliency, and to recede as relations between the sexes and races became more relaxed.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

The "saliency algorithm" decided how images would be cropped in Twitter previews, before being clicked on to open at full size.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2021

This turns on the bird units, which further drive the algorithm to enhance the saliency of birds in the image, and so on.

From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2015

"The message of the value of taxpayers' money, whether it's applied to federal, provincial or municipal government, is a message that has great saliency," said John Wright, pollster at Ipsos-Reid.

From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2013

There was something symbolic in the isolated saliency of these spires; they seemed to typify the permanence of a faith which had already defied centuries.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar