The phrase "distinct contribution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a noticeable, unique contribution made by someone or something. For example: "The team leader's distinct contribution to the project was essential for its success."
The Orthodox attitude toward social responsibility in the world constitutes a distinct contribution to the contemporary ecumenical movement.
By setting out the history of policymaking in this area – by highlighting the contribution of some key people and interventions and by unearthing unheard voices – we're making a distinct contribution to an ongoing conversation.
Third, our study makes a distinct contribution to the theory of territoriality in organizations.
An earlier mathematically related, though interpretationally distinct contribution is Wilson's work on abstract aggregation (1975).
In their own way, each of them is making their own distinct contribution to science.
It also has a distinct contribution that goes beyond the incorporation of behavioural parameters into models.
Structural imaging analyses have allowed us to identify key regions underlying the differential performance on semantic and phonemic fluency tasks and so corroborate the importance of particular structures to speech production and contribute to understanding their distinct contributions.
The growing influence of this idea, ironically, makes it difficult to see clearly Eno's distinct contributions to music — his catalogue of recordings doesn't completely contain his contribution to the pop canon.
He notes in particular their beneficial influence in music and publishing.Was their impact more than the sum of distinct contributions in their many métiers?
While Peirce examined meaning in general, conditional schema, and interpretants, James focused upon the distinct contributions that ideas and beliefs make to specific forms of human experience on the living level of practical wants and purposes.
We make three distinct contributions.
