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“Distinct” would do, I suppose, as surrender to the language prescriptivists.

"70 Distinct Ways to Encode <" would be the traditionally correct way to say it. I should have made that more clear in my original rant. My objection to using "unique" in this context is that doing so further erodes the original, narrow meaning of "unique" as "one of a kind". I suppose that makes me a prescriptivist and I'm okay with that.

Perhaps the concept of "uniqueness" itself is dying, rather than language being watered down.

"Everyone is unique." with the watered down version of the word "unique" just means "Everyone is distinct."

Perhaps people are beginning to collectively believe that nothing is irreproducible.

"70 Ways to Encode <". It's concise and loses no meaning here.