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delta

[del-tuh] / ˈdɛl tə /






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The price delta between base models is a non-trivial $7,300—which pushes the payback horizon to around nine years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

"The delta between parachute payment clubs and non-parachute payment clubs is going to significantly reduce, which makes the Championship a much more competitive league."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

When used together, the drugs substantially increased the ability of gamma delta T cells to kill cancer cells in laboratory experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Norris does not use a display on his dashboard showing his progress compared with his previous lap, the so-called delta, as most other drivers do.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Among the most important contributors are heavy groundwater pumping, oil and gas extraction, the compression of relatively young sediments in river deltas, and the weight of expanding urban areas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Several major deltas are experiencing especially rapid elevation loss, including those of the Mekong, Nile, Chao Phraya, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Mississippi, and Yellow rivers.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026

To assess the risk to China's deltas, the researchers combined geological records, measurements of land subsidence, and data on human impacts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025

In his badly penned sigmas and deltas she spied the shaking hand of her son’s growing anxiety.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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