How to Use salience in a Sentence

salience

noun
Definition of saliencenext
  • None of this has any salience to the 2022 Senate election in Ohio.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
  • This notion gained added salience after the chaos of 1989, the year of the massacre around Tiananmen Square.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • In 2021, brands have an opportunity to evolve from the sound of silence to the sound of salience.
    — Michele Arnese, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • But clearly a few of its claims have acquired special salience, all at once.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Reducing the salience of the gun issue might be the best political move for Democrats?
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Oct. 2017
  • To ignore those issues for fear of raising their salience will only cede them to the rabble-rousers.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The concept of genocide has special salience in some of the nations that emerged from Soviet control in the post-Cold War era.
    — Daniel Rothenberg, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
  • High on the agenda is crime, which has leapt in salience nationally since 2017, not least in Norwich.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Its salience rested on the whim—or on the politics—of whichever party controlled the Senate.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The same issue of salience affects other items high on the Democratic agenda.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • And the evidence for the electoral salience of government shutdowns is razor-thin.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
  • What caused this shift in the salience of race and identity (beyond the election of a black man in 2008) and augured an increase in racial polarization?
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 20 June 2017
  • Salamon says the criticism is just as well—the most important thing is to increase the salience of climate change in the minds of voters and politicians.
    — Time, 17 Nov. 2022
  • And our brains tend to confuse familiarity — or salience — with truth.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 13 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • In a measure of the salience of the issue of student debt, Millennial Money Man boasts some 2 million readers this year, Hoyt said.
    — Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Other factors had greater salience when people cast their ballots.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But the issue has taken on new salience in recent weeks as a number of sample videos showing how to abuse the setting have spread on social media.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2020
  • What’s clear is that climate change will only gain salience for Connecticut residents in the coming years.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Yet, none of this seems to translate into political salience.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • This is an ancient dilemma, but one that has particular salience in our #MeToo moment.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The regime wanted to reduce the political salience of the veil by easing up on enforcement; needless to say, the reverse has occurred.
    — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The speed with which Active Shooter’s demise happened is in part because of the new political salience school shootings have gained in recent months.
    — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
  • But the Parkland movement might change that dynamic, at least slightly, by making gun issues higher salience for the country as a whole.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Yet Democrats may be betting on an issue that has lost salience with voters as the economy has faltered during the pandemic.
    — Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2020

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