striking difference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrikinganddifference
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striking
adjective
uk/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/
very unusual or easily noticed, and therefore attracting a lot ...
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difference
noun
uk/ˈdɪf.ər.əns/us/ˈdɪf.ɚ.əns/
the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not ...
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(Definition ofstrikinganddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The moststrikingdifferenceis the absence of communal burial grounds.
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An additionalstrikingdifferencebetween the rabbinical and family courts relates to the role of lawyers within each tribunal.
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There is also astrikingdifferencebetween plant and cyanobacterial enzymes.
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Barely any coins or ducats of any sorts were used in cities in jewelry, this being the moststrikingdifferencebetween the two.
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Thisstrikingdifferencein empirical presumptions indicates that experimental studies are necessary to assess the contribution of deleterious mutations to standing genetic variation.
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The moststrikingdifferencefound between the late talkers and the typically developing children was in their use of cognitive state terms.
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Perhaps the moststrikingdifferencefrom the salt-water studies is the apparent absence of internal waves in the air experiments.
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To the casual observer, the moststrikingdifferenceis the color.
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Despite general similarities there is astrikingdifferencebetween the pathology induced in the muscle-derived 'nurse' cell harbouring the infective larvae of the two worms.
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In comparison to other important branches of the life sciences such as molecular biology, there is astrikingdifferencein the history of the neurosciences.
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This sort of result is the moststrikingdifferencebetween social salience theory and applied semantic realism.
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The moststrikingdifferencebetween the various models was in the standard errors of parameter estimates and the 95% confidence intervals (table 3).
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The moststrikingdifferencebetween the two groups was in reports that the end of caring had ' no effect ' on work arrangements.
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The moststrikingdifferencebetween the two techniques was in determining the need for further testing or intervention.
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These contrasting results may be due to different experimental conditions, the moststrikingdifferencebeing undoubtedly the cofactor present.
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Why should such astrikingdifferencein use of drugs and investigations have occurred?
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So we have astrikingdifferencebetween the periods 1500 -1575 and 1600 -1710.
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There was astrikingdifferencein numbers of (arthropod) individuals in the three investigated plant species.
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The moststrikingdifferencebetween the two islands was in the nocturnal niches, however.
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