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"startling similarity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe two things that are unexpectedly similar. For example, "Scientists were surprised to find a startling similarity between the diets of wild monkeys in the Amazon and those of urban primates."
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But yesterday's hearing does bear a startling similarity to a scene from a movie currently in theatres: James Vanderbilt's Truth, which depicts the 2004 controversy surrounding Dan Rather's story on George W Bush's military service.
If there's also an awful lot to it that sounds like you've heard it on other AC/DC records – a descending hook like Back in Black, a solo very reminiscent of Hell's Bells, an overall feel not unrelated to You Shook Me All Night Long – then you don't make 16 albums of startling similarity without sometimes borrowing from yourself.
But a new lab experiment reveals a startling similarity: Cracks induced in that atomic disk may mimic the fractures scientists think scar the surfaces of magnetic neutron stars.
One cannot compare the chemical structure of, say, an adenine nucleotide, ATP, NAD+, and coenzyme A and not recognize that these vital components of life may in fact be the result of common descent from a progenitor pool of organic molecules followed by divergence, nor that the startling similarity displayed represents actual molecular homology.
[below: 10 minute video documentary explores startling similarity between conspiracy theories proposed by Pastor John Hagee and by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels].
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The Langlands program draws connections among several of these "continents" by revealing startling similarities in their structures.
You can tell by the startling similarities in their fine-tuned mechanics that Nicks and Cruz are extremely well coached.
The draft, as Speed read and others have observed, has startling similarities to the old levels system, which was withdrawn last September.
Witnessing the mounting frustrations of many ordinary Egyptians, I couldn't help but notice the startling similarities between Morsi's government and the Chávistas of my own Venezuela.
But despite the startling similarities to the case of nanny Louise Woodward - who received massive support in the British media in her attempts to overturn her conviction for shaking baby Matthew Eapen to death - the trial of Basuta has practically been ignored.
The novel is about a young writer working on a biography of a distinguished Indian author and has, some say, startling similarities to reality and Patrick French's 1988 biography of VS Naipaul.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com