distinctiveness

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The “bar for distinctiveness this year—and every year—is unapologetically high,” Bob Sternfels, McKinsey’s global managing partner, wrote in a memo to staff announcing the new partners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

The play draws out the distinctiveness of the grandparents by ratcheting up their zingy eccentricities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

Momofuku cites its product’s popularity, media coverage and favorable online reviews as evidence of its chili crunch’s "distinctiveness."

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2024

Furthermore, gene expression analysis also revealed the absence of segmental expression of somitogenesis-related genes, indicating their distinctiveness from somites.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

In zoological significance and distinctiveness, Homo erectus was more than an ape, but still much less than a modern human.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond