salient

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Platforms such as TikTok illustrate how a system can harness decentralized participation to shape what users see, engage with and ultimately accept as salient or true.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Most studies focus on a will as the central part of the process, but that isn’t even the most salient document anymore, according to many in the estate and financial-planning industry.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

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 • Feb. 11, 2026

“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 • Jan. 21, 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