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differ

[dif-er] / ˈdɪf ər /




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Although the details of each case differ, all spoke of family life stopped in its tracks and a lack of accountability.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

The bedrooms themselves differ from those of his typical houses and in character are more like staterooms, comfortable private cabins for sleeping between your turns on deck.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Identifying the safest place to extract it was not straightforward, particularly as anatomy tends to differ between individuals.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

These features differ from those documented in previously known mosasaurs.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

Where this school does differ from others is the level of intensity when it comes to classwork—if it relates to our major.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

That differs from temporary entanglement, which has to be used during the brief period when it exists.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

Feedback and interaction differs from club to club.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

While European liquidity broadly follows American trends, there is one sphere in which the liquidity cycle differs markedly: China, which is also travelling in the opposite direction, according to Howell.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

The tone of these articles differs markedly from Grossman’s war reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Family structure, too, differs increasingly along class lines.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The WalletHub ranking differed from other recent listings, which have highlighted unique locales as the top retirement destinations, such as Wyoming, New Hampshire and Midland, Mich.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Investigators typically seek to learn whether the fund manager’s trading or risk-management practices differed from what they told their investors they would do.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

In both simulations, atmospheric CO2 increased gradually, but the rate of that increase differed substantially.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

Officials did not say why the reinstatement dates differed for each player.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Because Wari and Tiwanaku pottery differed, Williams and Nash have been able to map which group lived in which neighborhood by the distribution of ceramic fragments.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Sure enough, Heyward and Freeman both headed south that day — still driving separately because of their differing morning routines.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

What a strange season Nottingham Forest had last time, going through four managers and all with differing styles.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Cope gave differing measurements of the vertebra at various times, making it unclear quite how large it actually was.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

They also called for a common framework for attribution studies, noting that differing methods "sometimes leads to confusion among the public and other stakeholders when studies of the same event produce different results."

From Barron's Jul. 16, 2026

From those nuclear areas, hunter-gatherers of some neighboring areas learned food production, and peoples of other neighboring areas were replaced by invading food producers from the nuclear areas—again at widely differing times.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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