striking
They quickly noticed that the skeletons of modern people are strikingly different from those of the last century.
It looks strikingly similar to a photograph I took of my boyfriend three years ago.
Strikingly, neither mother tried to see the children again once they had been "won" by their fathers.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Apparent and obvious
(from) under your noseidiom
apparent
be (as) plain as the nose on your faceidiom
be (right) under your noseidiom
be etched somewhereidiom
be writ largeidiom
flagrantly
foregone conclusion
glaring
glaringly
I need hardly do somethingidiom
obtrude
overtly
palpable
palpably
parallax
patently
squeaky
stand/stick out a mileidiom
writ

Examples of strikingly

strikingly
More than this, it was strikingly similar to some of the plans being drawn up at that very moment by coiffeurs themselves.
Most strikingly, the shared terrain of repression and liberation means that the opera is remarkable for leaving a good many things unsaid.
Creatures of their own era, they would in many respects seem strikingly old-fashioned today could they somehow come back to life.
Strikingly, in a majority of cases, the finite forms were more frequent than their infinitive counterparts.
But more strikingly, contributory benefits and pensions are a much smaller share of the total than they used to be.
The series are strikingly (though not perfectly) similar.
More strikingly, in the first period of sign exposure, he made no accompanying change in the facial-action needed to signal questions.
This is strikingly similar to the developmental pattern observed in infants.
Many of the ideas used to good effect in computational syntax, most strikingly various versions of feature inheritance, have been borrowed from programming languages.
This view squares strikingly with what the analysis of the text and its language suggest about the origin of the fragments.
There is another set of findings that is strikingly consistent with the association of dreams and persistent basic motivations.
These non-standard forms contrast strikingly with those used by more fluent speakers.
These different sources and methodologies have generated strikingly different accounts of secularization.
Most strikingly, the gang as an organisational form had effectively disappeared.
The age distribution of those who gave financial support to their children was strikingly different from the age distribution of those who gave to grandchildren.
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