distinctively

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But he concluded that birthright citizenship was by now distinctively American.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

By the early 1930s, Bing Crosby had created a distinctively American vocal style—low-key, expressive—which was adapted by Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Its distinctively Italian style began to influence the way the fashionable dressed.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

That’s why, McKinney says, motels like the Red Apple and William Tell chose to brand themselves so distinctively.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

So widespread was Olmec iconography—jaguar babies, carved stelae, distinctively shaped ceramics—that many archaeologists believed its very ubiquity was evidence that the Olmec “not only engendered Mesoamerica but also brought forth the first Mesoamerican empire.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann