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The phrase "a very distinguished" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is highly respected or notable in a particular field or context.
Example: "The award was presented to a very distinguished scientist who has made significant contributions to environmental research."
Alternatives: "a highly esteemed" or "an exceptionally notable".
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Mr Turnbull defended Ms Triggs as a "very distinguished" legal scholar, adding that the main issue "is the children".Ordinary Australians have never really taken to Mr Abbott.
Koppel actually agreed, but thought it was "tacky" to "second-guess" a fellow member of a "very distinguished but tiny club".
The communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, declined to criticise Triggs or her performance in the role as commissioner, describing her on Wednesday as a "very distinguished international legal academic".
Harold Pinter playwright "A very distinguished writer has used his imagination to write a book and has criticised the religion into which he was born and he has been sentenced to death as well as his publishers.
"You were a law clerk for a very distinguished federal judge, were you not, John Walker Blumenthalaskedked Treene. .
"In order to save a very distinguished name, TriQuarterly, the magazine that I myself edited for 16 years, it was proposed to me that the student journal take that name … I certainly wasn't going to say no".
And when she later asked if Mr. Annan was distinguished, Mr. Kissinger said he told her: "He is a very distinguished man.
"He was a very distinguished parliamentarian and social reformer who has left an indelible mark on his country.
"Tom is a very distinguished scholar.
A Hambletonian is a very distinguished trotting horse.
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Mary had five elder siblings; the eldest son, Malcolm, was autistic, but the younger, Duncan Wilson, became a very distinguished diplomat, and later Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge.
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