distinctiveness
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By now the distinctiveness of Nolan’s cinematic ruminations is common knowledge.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Yet all are undergirded by peoples that had a pre-existing sense of their own distinctiveness, their own nationhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The play draws out the distinctiveness of the grandparents by ratcheting up their zingy eccentricities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
The third important factor was the evolutionary distinctiveness or "uniqueness" of the species.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
Despite its distinctiveness even in East Asia at that time, Jomon Japan was not a completely isolated universe.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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