How to Use salience in a Sentence

salience

noun
  • The question is not opinion, but salience.
    — Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But clearly a few of its claims have acquired special salience, all at once.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
  • Other factors had greater salience when people cast their ballots.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2018
  • My guess is that the reboot won't have quite the cultural salience of the original.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Still, the issue has reached a level of salience that ought to qualify it for the debate stage.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Brand salience is difficult to measure by clicks and short-term leads, but the long-term payout is worth the wait.
    — Kathy Floam-Greenspan, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • To ignore those issues for fear of raising their salience will only cede them to the rabble-rousers.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
  • And our brains tend to confuse familiarity — or salience — with truth.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Yet, none of this seems to translate into political salience.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And as the 2024 election enters the final stretch, polls could have more salience now.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The difference in giving was not due to a difference in awareness or salience.
    — Claire White, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
  • To gain public salience, however, many other accounts must take up that same hashtag in their own tweets.
    — Marc Jones, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • And as the hunger for scarce talent becomes more acute, the movement of people will take on new economic salience.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The Pride Night issue took on more salience because both the team and the league failed to deal with it quickly.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Does the failure of the latter invalidate the salience of the former?
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
  • None of this has any salience to the 2022 Senate election in Ohio.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
  • Yet the salience of an airplane’s actual machinery has been fading too.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Her win could be a testament to the salience of those issues for voters in 2024.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The extent of these expansions of the salience network were remarkable.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But there’s little doubt that the salience of Supreme Court control would have been higher in such a campaign.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 26 June 2018
  • Most assume that love maps matter most at the beginning of relationships, and lose their salience as time goes on.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Reducing the salience of the gun issue might be the best political move for Democrats?
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Oct. 2017
  • But traditions gain salience through time and repetition.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The same issue of salience affects other items high on the Democratic agenda.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The salience network, which responds to external stimuli.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And the evidence for the electoral salience of government shutdowns is razor-thin.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Much of the action takes place during a massive blizzard, and the wind and precipitation and skies all have an eerie salience.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • In 2021, brands have an opportunity to evolve from the sound of silence to the sound of salience.
    — Michele Arnese, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The couple made the gift while Meghan was pregnant with their daughter, Lilibet, adding further salience to the cause.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 16 July 2021
  • Its salience rested on the whim—or on the politics—of whichever party controlled the Senate.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Jan. 2018

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