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Meanings of distinctive in English

Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing.

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Capable of being classified.

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Examples for "typical"
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The control group performed a typical physical class three times per week.
Pubmed
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Not exactly the typical company line we're used to hearing these days.
Wired
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The Finance Minister describes it as not a typical election year Budget.
Radio NZ
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Analysis across countries used a LogFrame Analysis typical for public nutrition development.
Pubmed
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We are a strong family, a working family, and a typical family.
Reuters
Usage of distinctive in English
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However, no information has been reported about this distinctive process until now.
Pubmed
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Some distinctive TEM ultrastructural features were also seen in the different cases.
Pubmed
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The choice of words was distinctive and the sentence structure more formal.
American assassin
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YG artists are seen as having especially distinctive styling among K-Pop artists.
Reuters
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They each left a quality behind; something distinctive and hard to catch.
The gathering
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However, a distinctive difference in pathogenic ability in neonatal mice was found.
Pubmed
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Marketing water in Ireland was entrepreneur Geoff Reed's distinctive achievement at Ballygowan.
The Irish Times
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But our focus remains providing distinctive, high-quality programmes valued by the public.
The Guardian
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Britain is littered with places that used to have a distinctive character.
The Guardian
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Buttery's distinctive acoustic style is clearly influenced by traditional South African instrumentation.
The South African
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A distinctive myopathy was observed in 24 children following influenza B infection.
Pubmed
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The work was described as being a very distinctive… Read more Audio
Radio NZ
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This classification marks in reality the distinctive characteristics of the Western Indians.
The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
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Despite reports, there are no current plans to scrap the distinctive uniform.
The Guardian
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Several distinctive cytological features were observed in PBLs of the different subgroups.
Pubmed
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Minus: The distinctive colour scheme may not appeal, but can be changed.
The Irish Times
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Common
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