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"It's like the difference between stargazing at night versus the daytime," he says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

He described the difference between the two as being: "I'll bet on the favourite and he'll bet on the longest odds possible."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

That difference has made Spirostomum especially interesting to researchers who want to understand the machinery that makes its extreme speed possible.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

But there is one crucial difference: friendly golf games don’t usually cost $43 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

And the difference in intensity between her voice and the telephone caller makes it nearly impossible—Mrs. Dannenberg has her voice raised, calling out to us from her stoop.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But I have my differences with lots of people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

The team then compared networks whose components were identical with networks containing differences among their components or connections.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Conversations like this reminded me that people with little power are often attuned to the differences between what they hear from authorities and what they know in their guts.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

This hasn't been a particularly ill-tempered contest, and there aren't vast ideological differences between Joe Fagan and Michael Marra.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Anyone who even glanced at the prospectuses could see that there were many critical differences between one triple-B bond and the next—the percentage of interest-only loans contained in their underlying pool of mortgages, for example.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

When you are dead, and stand to me Not differenced, as now, But like again, will you be cold As when we lived, or how?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2016

If a second map of the exact same area is acquired when there is no snow, the two surfaces can be differenced to produce a snow depth map.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 10, 2012

"David is a point of differenced player and we are looking forward to him making an impact at the breakdown," the Australia forwards coach, Jim Williams, said.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2010

The echo of the Karstark sunburst was there for those who cared to look, but differenced to make the arms appropriate for House Thenn.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Shirland of Minster bore the same arms differenced with an ermine quarter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

In the Royal Heraldry of our own times the Bordure is not used as a Royal Difference; but its use is retained in Scotland for differencing Shields of less exalted rank.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

An interesting example of early differencing is cited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in his ‘Roll of Carlaverok.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

The arms borne in the usual manner were often surrounded with a bordure to indicate bastardy; of this mode of differencing several examples are furnished in the arms of existing peers descended from royalty.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.—We call this specialty the bias of each individual.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes