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

Striking \Strik"ing\, a. Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance. ``A striking fact.''
--De Quincey. -- Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.

Wiktionary
strikingly

adv. 1 (context manner English) In a striking way. 2 (context degree English) To a remarkable degree or extent. 3 (context evaluative English) remarkably, surprisingly.

WordNet
strikingly

adv. in a striking manner; "this was strikingly demonstrated"; "the evidence was strikingly absent"

Wikipedia
Strikingly

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Usage examples of "strikingly".

In a word, without apperception our minds, with strikingly greater and more exhaustive labor, would attain relatively smaller results.

That impression had nothing to do with her physical presence, though she was a strikingly handsome woman, and her mismatched eyes did lend her an exotic air.

He failed to foresee the multistage rocket, the vast national effort that the launch would require, the immense technological support system that would be necessary, and, most strikingly, the extraordinary live telecasts of the moon mission itself.

The Christs in the two chapels are strikingly alike, and the general effect is that of a residuary impression left in the mind of one who had known the Varallo Flagellation exceedingly well.

But the volume before the reader is not so much a history of the battles of Virginia, which have often been described, as an attempt to delineate the military and personal character of General Lee, which displayed itself often more strikingly in indecisive events than in those whose results attract the attention of the world.

As the six strolled into the huge ballroom, one of the French doors opened in the opposite wall and a strikingly beautiful woman came forth to meet them in a full green dress.

The canned laughter of TV comedy shows is one variety of faked data of this sort, but there is a great deal more, and much of the fakery is strikingly obvious.

Amongst mammals, we see it strikingly displayed in Bats, and in a lesser degree in the Felidae and Canidae.

In spite of their appellation these fungi are strikingly beautiful, but their odor is most offensive.

The latter proved a strikingly voluptuous woman of large hips, breasts and wide pink nipples, belly scored by childbearing above lush pubic hair.

The three brains are said to be distinguished neuroanatomically and functionally, and contain strikingly different distributions of the neurochemicals dopamine and cholinesterase.

Modern science strikingly confirms the ideas of Pythagoras in regard to the properties of numbers, and that they govern in the Universe.

Clodia, had aged that pair of repulsive sexual acrobats so strikingly that they preferred to stay at home and avoid mirrors.

But hydraulic thinking centred not on the fatty and unpromising tissue of which the brain was composed but instead on its fluid-filled core, the ventricles, lovingly drawn by early anatomists, none more strikingly than Leonardo.

Maia had noticed that many of the orange-clad males bore faces strikingly similar to the female clones in maroon overalls.