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The salient features of the new car include its fuel efficiency, safety features, and stylish design.salient = most noteworthy
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Please tell us just the salient facts.salient = most important
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In the business meeting, they discussed the salient features of the new product that set it apart from the competition.salient = most noteworthy
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And in the days that followed, a man who had long prided himself on his ability to tell a story in the most succinct manner with an emphasis on the most salient points, by necessity became a master of the digression, the parenthetical remark, the footnote, eventually even learning to anticipate Sofia's relentless inquiries before she had the time to phrase them. (source)salient = important
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The flaps of his gabardine jacket parted slightly over his healthy rump, and it is that, without any sense of derision at all, that I recall as Brinker's salient characteristic, those healthy, determined, not over-exaggerated but definite and substantial buttocks. (source)salient = most noteworthy
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As the militants secured the city, extinguishing the last large salients of resistance, a partial calm descended, (source)salients = noteworthy areas
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The truth was, no matter what King Wah had said, no matter how clear the explanation of PTSD, no matter if the jury completely empathized with Peter—Jordan had forgotten one salient point: they would always feel sorrier for the victims. (source)salient = most important
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His words were falling down a well, hitting stone salients on their way, and each salient refused to stop them, threw them farther, tossed them from one another, sent them to seek a bottom that did not exist.† (source)
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Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials "don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people."† (source)
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Hanne set the food out on plastic placemats, and soon she knew all the salient facts about him and he her. (source)salient = most noteworthy
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It was his first extended political work and one of the most salient of his life, written at the age of thirty. (source)salient = important
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The salient thing of this other world seemed fear. (source)salient = most noteworthy
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Shortly afterwards, Percy was killed in heavy shelling at the Ypres Salient, and in July Eddie died at the Somme.† (source)
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Yes, very salutary," said Arthur, after Slartibartfast had related the salient points of this story to him, "but I don't understand what all this has got to do with the Earth and mice and things."† (source)
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Very softly, still hearing the shake in her voice, she said everything that was salient, spitting it out like some horrible medicine too bitter to swallow.† (source)
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Shigemura described it in Japanese—the salient feature of her physical being, as prominent and extraordinary as baldness might have been in another girl of the same age.† (source)
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