Salient

The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.

With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy."

The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.

Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.

He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.

Professionally published dictionaries do not seem to have extended coverage beyond the most frequent and salient items.

Russian forces likely accumulated a large amount of equipment for such mechanized assaults, but significant medium- to long-term constraints on Russian armored vehicle stocks will become more salient as losses grow and may force the Russian military command to rethink the benefit of continuing such intensified mechanized activity in Ukraine.

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