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salient

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Sentence 2 After reading the lengthy report, the committee agreed that the most salient point was the dramatic rise in local water pollution over the past decade.
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Sentence 3 Of all the details in the witness's testimony, the one that proved most salient was her clear memory of the red door.
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Sentence 4 When summarizing a novel for class, focus on the salient events that drive the plot rather than every minor scene.
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Dictionary

adjective
Prominent; conspicuous.
adjective
Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
noun
(military) An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
adjective
(often military) Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
noun
(geography) A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.
adjective
(geometry) Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
adjective
(heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
noun
(geology) An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.

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