Word: distinctive
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...effects vary widely, however, depending on a variety of factors. To begin with, each neurotransmitter can latch onto more than one kind of receptor. As many as 15 distinct receptors have been identified for serotonin alone. And since a given nerve cell may have more or fewer receptors, depending on where in the brain it is located, a jolt of a particular neurotransmitter can generate electrical signals of widely varying strengths. Small wonder, therefore, that serotonin can affect everything from satiety to depression...
...McDonald's in the Square. Several found The Crimson's coverage of the issue to be too opinionated: too pro-McDonald's and not respectful enough of alternative viewpoints. After rereading the article several times with the criticisms and letters to the editors in mind, I definitely see a distinct pro-McDonald's stance in the article. The authors are clearly sympathetic toward the students who crave McNuggets and they portray the Harvard Square Defense Fund as an obstacle to that...
Beneath the sturdy British accent with which he articulated the distinct "Morgan philosophy," Mendoza slipped quips mocking the firm's "gripping" recruiting presentation and one of his own past trysts...
While America is not the only country that sends its children away to school, the American college experience is unique. Each of the four years may be seen as a distinct developmental stage: the first year is an exploratory and overwhelming one, one in which previous flirtations with independence become realities; sophomore year is a trying one in which one's true self struggles to emerge, and legitimate interests are supposed to materialize; by junior year, college as such has lost its novelty and has simply and welcomely become life; and by senior year, as a friend told...
...archaeologists are prepared to go that far. But there is now enough evidence for a scientific consensus that ancient Nubia, beginning in the Stone Age, developed its own distinct civilization--or rather, a series of overlapping civilizations--influenced by Africa, Arabia and the Sahara as well as by Egypt. Moreover, many scholars believe these Nubian kingdoms hold even more clues to the origins of African culture than does Egypt, which, because of its unique position abutting Asia and the Mediterranean, is regarded by many archaeologists as having developed independently from the rest of the continent...