distinct
Being distinctly Southern made her stand out there.
There's something distinctly odd about her.
New partnerships began to develop between two distinctly separate cultures: academia and private industry.
The agency's behaviour has been distinctly different under Democratic and Republican administrations.

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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
foregone conclusion
glaring
glaringly
I need hardly do somethingidiom
in plain sightidiom
obtrude
palpable
palpably
parallax
patently
perceivable
squeaky
stand/stick out a mileidiom
writ

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distinctly | American Dictionary

distinctly
adverb
us/dɪˈstɪŋkt·li/
in a clear or noticeable way:
I distinctly remember asking Ralph not to tell anyone about it.

Examples of distinctly

distinctly
In this scenario, such formulations as ' the people ' could ring distinctly hollow.
On the other hand, discrete emotional signals may convey different information and be processed distinctly.
The ichnographic map was distinctly different from realistic pictorial panoramas, as well as from the cityscape itself.
The planning-control model predicts that damage to brain regions responsible for either planning or control will result in distinctly different deficits.
The city itself was not large by contemporary standards, but it cast a distinctly urban shadow over its surroundings.
Unlike the introductory movement, environmental recordings are seldom perceived, and the whole movement is endowed with a distinctly abstract character.
The resulting phenomenon - termed ' order through fluctuations ' - is a distinctly evolutionary one, complete with feedback loops that drive the system further from equilibrium.
In contrast to the ambitious scale of the house building programme the dominant approach to implementation was distinctly conservative.
Note that the bound variables of e need not be distinctly named.
Decades of patenting activity prior to mid-century produced three distinctly different procedures for mechanically forming clay products.
In the octopus retina, dynein localization was distinctly granular; epifluorescence microscopy showed that it was more prevalent in the ventral than dorsal retina.
Wing fringes distinctly smoky grey; some of the hairs on the veins are also dark grey or smoky grey.
That detailed information consolidates our presentation of stratified turbulence decay as a distinctly two-scale process.
This trial distinctly shows the performances of the pneumatic actuated system which is closest to the human leg.
This leads to distinctly unreadable code when pattern matching on arguments of such types and it may also cause inefficiencies.
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