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distinctly

[dih-stingkt-lee] / dɪˈstɪŋkt li /
ADVERB
clearly
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The track is also distinctly representative of Milwaukee, Busalacchi said, in part because of the claps that define the city’s rap culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

UK political debate has had a distinctly Scottish feel these last few days.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

She had a way of doing that that was distinctly hers, but it echoes in the women and also the men who raised me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Plastic soul,” then, becomes a conceptual shorthand for The Beatles’ chameleonic ability to absorb a genre’s core qualities and refashion it into something distinctly their own.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Or maybe they’d been scared away by the food—herring in rancid oil, stale black bread, and some kind of butter that looked distinctly mossy.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo


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