Bulging and Salient

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Bulging adjective - Curving or bulging outward.

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Salient and bulging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Salient" instead an adjective "Bulging".

Nearby Words: bulge, bulged, bulgy

Salient adjective - Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention.

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Bulging and salient are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bulging" instead an adjective "Salient".

Nearby Word: salience

Hitler decided that Moscow could not be taken immediately; instead, the grain and oil of the Ukraine would be seized first, and the bulging Soviet salient around Kiev eliminated.

Source: Useful Notes / History of the USSR

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