distinctive profile

collocation in English

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distinctive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/us
/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/
Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from ...
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profile
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.faɪl/us
/ˈproʊ.faɪl/
a short description of someone's life, work, ...
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(Definition ofdistinctiveandprofilefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Each individual has adistinctiveprofileof genetically influenced traits, such as perceptual style, cognitive abilities, and temperament.
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An analysis of the changes yields four periods, each showing adistinctiveprofileof sources.
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Given the tiny sample sizes, this analysis must be regarded as exploratory, but it allowed us to check whether there was adistinctiveprofileassociated with poor auditory temporal resolution.
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Because of itsdistinctiveprofile, it is perhaps the state's most recognized mountain, featured on the state quarter.
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Floors 5, 12, 13, 17, 18, 26 and 30 each recede back to form the buildingsdistinctiveprofile.
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Each city has adistinctiveprofileof human, cultural, historic and natural characteristics.
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A hard hat also provides workers with adistinctiveprofile, readily identifiable even in peripheral vision, for safety around equipment or traffic.
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The concrete tower has adistinctiveprofile, with a triangular plan.
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These grassy islands are both remnants of ancient lava flows, and have adistinctiveprofile: flat-topped and trimmed with cliffs.
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This pink-skinned animal has adistinctiveprofilewith an elongated, flattened snout, and highly protrusible jaws containing prominent nail-like teeth.
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While subsamples can be identified based on different constellations of overlapping disorders, there have been few efforts to develop distinctive profiles based on these subgroups.
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Eight have an unusual carvers mark in the form of an uprooted plant and adistinctiveprofileto the moulding running round the edge of the corbel.
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A finding offered in support of these grand claims is that writers have distinctive profiles on a number of measures.
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