How to Use saliency in a Sentence

saliency

noun
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  • The two strongly agree about the saliency of being a woman.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • This turns on the bird units, which further drive the algorithm to enhance the saliency of birds in the image, and so on.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2015
  • But the saliency point also applies to things such as heating bills and the cost of food, which has gone up nearly nine per cent in the past twelve months.
    — The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This would increase this saliency ratio and, in turn, produce more torque.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
  • 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.
    — Sam Dorman, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Certainly Mailer’s brand of machismo has less cultural saliency in 2022 than in his heyday.
    — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The saliency algorithm was built using data from human eye-tracking studies.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 21 May 2021
  • The saliency maps supported findings from other studies, including ones on normal aging in the brain and how Alzheimer’s might impact the brains of male and female people differently.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2023
  • While there are serious questions about the political saliency of this plan, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is more concerned about the technical problems.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 July 2019
  • One popular explainability method is called a saliency map.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
  • First, a saliency algorithm identified feature-rich areas.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • Smith is one of two school board candidates in Texas that have been elected amid a raging battle over critical race theory (CRT), prompting speculation about the issue's political saliency nationwide.
    — Talia Kaplan, Fox News, 4 May 2021

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