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saliency

[ sey-lee-uhn-see, seyl-yuhn- ]

noun

plural saliencies.


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Origin of saliency1

First recorded in 1655–65; salient, -ency
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Abortion rights was the top issue for 27 percent of voters, proving the saliency of that issue months after the high court’s decision.

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While other districts in the U.S. had dealt with the issue, Loudoun appeared to gain the most attention, and the state as a whole would become a test case for the political saliency of education.

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In May, Twitter admitted racial biases in the way its "saliency algorithm" cropped previews of images.

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Beyond policy details, Amber Roessner, a 41-year-old University of Tennessee professor who wrote “Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign,” said Carter’s broader political identity from the 1970s has “regained some saliency.”

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The "saliency algorithm" decided how images would be cropped in Twitter previews, before being clicked on to open at full size.

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