How to Use salience in a Sentence

salience

noun

• 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
• Her win could be a testament to the salience of those issues for voters in 2024.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• My guess is that the reboot won't have quite the cultural salience of the original.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 24 Aug. 2021
• Over the two decades after Scalia’s elevation to the Court, the salience of Italian-ness changed.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
• 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
• This issue has not lost its salience to a new generation.
  — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Avoiding the description of tariffs as a tax is an example of psychological salience, or the lack thereof: out of sight out of mind.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• Indeed, countries such as Mexico have voiced concerns about the recent erosion of the nuclear order, including the risks of nuclear use and the increasing salience of nuclear weapons.
  — Doreen Horschig, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024