adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contrast sharply/strikingly with sth (= be extremely different from something )
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These results contrast sharply with other medical tests carried out in Australia.
remarkably/strikingly/startlingly similar
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The results of each study are remarkably similar.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
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One of them was a strikingly beautiful woman in her mid-thirties.
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It is a strikingly beautiful fish, basically yellow-orange.
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The girls were tall and slim, and quite strikingly beautiful .
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Little is known of this strikingly beautiful femme-fatale, except that her contribution to early aviation reporting was considerable.
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The back half of the body is a strong yellow colour, giving the overall appearance of a strikingly beautiful fish.
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He came from a strikingly beautiful family, after all.
different
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Lunchtimes at the Victoria Centre are intended to be a communal affair but at the Delphi Centre they are strikingly different .
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The approaches to the two issues, though, have been strikingly different .
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At first glance, these various theories appear strikingly different in terms of their methods and objectives.
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Careful listening has meant a succession of books strikingly different from each other.
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The plumage of most male and female pheasants is strikingly different .
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The atmosphere of the two places seemed strikingly different and I thought Yale the winner.
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They all suggested that the responses of the women and girls they studied were strikingly different from men's.
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In their war of words and figures, both companies have issued comparisons of the two plans, with strikingly different results.
handsome
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Sumner was a tall, strikingly handsome man with dark hair and a beard which turned white in old age.
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Both were attractive young men, but Wilfred in particular was strikingly handsome .
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They were wrapped in long, midnight-blue capes that disguised most of their shapes, but their uncovered faces were strikingly handsome .
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He was a strikingly handsome man, with shiny hair and dark skin and bright eyes.
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Now twenty-five winters old, Joseph was a powerfully built, strikingly handsome man.
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He looked so tall, so strikingly handsome in the deep blue suit and immaculate white shirt.
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He was petite like herself, but strikingly handsome .
similar
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Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers' discussions about arterial accessibility.
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All 43 Texas Cowboys and pledges who were at the initiation picnic in Bastrop County tell strikingly similar stories about that night.
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Their records in these Tests are strikingly similar .
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These cases have followed a strikingly similar pattern.
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The comet Tempel-Tuttle follows an orbit that is strikingly similar to that of the Leonids.
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The run-off election, featuring two strikingly similar platforms, looks like a horse race.
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It is hard to overstate the difference in expression and outlook in these two women so strikingly similar in feature.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first glance, these various theories appear strikingly different in terms of their methods and objectives.
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Generally active by day, wrasse are some of the most colourful and strikingly marked fish.
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She was under five feet five inches tall, but strikingly good-looking, with dark hair and eyes and vivacious manners.
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The comet Tempel-Tuttle follows an orbit that is strikingly similar to that of the Leonids.
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The reaction of modern institutions to current challenges and resistance are strikingly contradictory, even schizophrenic.
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The results were strikingly uniform: alcohol inhibited all these responses.
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Yet several activists had strikingly heavy domestic commitments.
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You find it most strikingly on the World Wide Web.