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Yet all are undergirded by peoples that had a pre-existing sense of their own distinctiveness, their own nationhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 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

The third important factor was the evolutionary distinctiveness or "uniqueness" of the species.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 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