salient
adjective
noun
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Related Words for salient
arresting, pertinent, conspicuous, weighty, signal, notable, jutting, striking, famous, impressive, intrusive, marked, moving, obtrusive, obvious, outstanding, projecting, prominent, pronounced, remarkableExamples from the Web for salient
Contemporary Examples of salient
He is also known as El H, but of all his nicknames El Elegante is the most salient.
One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders.
But in the aggregate, immigration reform is not a salient issue for white evangelicals.
When I sit down someday to write my memoirs and try to characterize this era, I will note three salient political features.
One salient moment in the book comes during a meeting with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
Historical Examples of salient
On the eastern side of the salient there were five distinct attacks.
Here the Germans had a salient which was long and quite narrow.
The point of this salient was at St. Mihiel, the other side of the Meuse.
The French did not plan to make an attack on the salient at its apex.
Plava was in a salient occupying about the middle of the Austrian line.