The phrase "a distinctive case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific instance or example that stands out due to its unique characteristics or features.
Example: "The study presented a distinctive case that highlighted the challenges faced by small businesses during economic downturns."
Alternatives: "a unique instance" or "a notable example."
In a nod to Apple's work with aluminum, Microsoft began to closely study materials that could be used to create a distinctive case for a tablet.
The mahatma is a distinctive case, but swap in "my Hindu/Jewish/Buddhist neighbor" for Gandhi, and you can see why many religious Americans find the idea of eternal punishment for wrong belief increasingly unpalatable.
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Case 2: HIV screening via social media (Conditions 3 and 7) HIV/AIDS has become a distinctive case in the history of epidemiology as the disclosure of infection is widely considered to put seropositive individuals at risk of stigmatization and violence.
A distinctive case is Mrs. D. At the age of 63 she was afflicted – among other disorders – with food intolerance.
The three organellar rps13 genes in rosids provide a distinctive case of gene duplication involving the co-evolution of the nuclear and cytoplasmic genomes.
It is a time to argue a party's distinctive case, with or against the tide of public opinion.
NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely referred to as "the cube" because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft magnesium cube, an edict of Jobs' designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign.
The white iPhone 4S has a distinctive cracked case the girl had colourfully decorated herself.
Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple had bought large quantities of high-quality aluminum from a mine in Australia to create the distinctive cases for the iPad, according to a former Microsoft employee involved in the discussions, who did not wish to be named talking about internal matters.
Even when methylmercury had been established as the chemical cause of the disease, strict diagnostic requirements and case definitions assumed that the disease was a characteristic all-or-none phenomenon, thereby excluding less distinctive cases and obscuring the dose effect relationship.
