The phrase "and distinct from the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify that something is separate or different from another thing being discussed.
Example: "The new policy is designed to be inclusive and distinct from the previous regulations that were in place."
Alternatives: "and separate from the" or "and different from the".
"The ad was separate and distinct from the cover.
"It's an unworkable model, because on the one hand it's asked to be separate and distinct from the BBC itself.
A spokesman for Ms. Kroes, Jonathan Todd, would not identify the companies raided this week, but he said they were "separate and distinct" from the larger inquiry.
For John Locke it had become self-evident that "the church itself is a thing absolutely separate and distinct from the commonwealth.
The body is thin and laterally compressed, and the head is triangular and distinct from the neck.
The condition of the cosmos prior to man's arrival is viewed as separate and distinct from the alterations that result from the beginning of the human cultural world.
It is a street-level fight of neighborhood canvassing and phone banks conducted largely out of sight and distinct from the ad wars carpet-bombing televisions in Virginia.
Above the lush equatorial belt of South America, lower in altitude and distinct from the clouds, it was a nebulous, smoky, profoundly unsettling gray-blue.
The upheaval at Yale and the protests that forced the resignation of University of Missouri President Timothy Wolfe and of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin are both a product of and distinct from the Black Lives Matter moment we currently inhabit.
At a news conference with the Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the secretary of state, John Kerry, said the discussions on re-establishing embassies are technical and distinct from the US legal examination of Cuba's record on terrorism.
Mr. Wallace opened the reservation's first full-service smoke shop, to "show the community that we could develop an economy separate and distinct from the state and that it could be done the right way".
