distinctively

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Comma butterflies, with their distinctively ragged wing edges, have recovered in numbers since the survey began.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

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

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

Instead of manipulating government for their own narrow interests, the rich can add a distinctively independent-minded, public-spirited and efficacious set of voices to the national debate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

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