difference
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Or you can take the downgrade and get a refund of the difference between the original fare and what it calls the downgraded fare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
By throwing a naive character into this environment, what were you aiming to expose about the difference between posturing around these subcultures and the lived reality of them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Litowitz: There is a big difference, and yes, confusing them can cost investors a great deal of money.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
"That shows they are right and their security is making a difference," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
IT WAS IN late November that year that a common cold made a big difference.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“There’s economic differences in terms of what’s accessible for people to send in. People have different reward systems with their kids.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
People who leave charities donations, legacies and bequests in their wills make noticeable differences to organisations, no matter what the amount is, sector leaders say.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
A push for landmark US cryptocurrency legislation collapsed on Tuesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to bridge months-old differences over ethics, banking and how the fast-growing industry should be regulated.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Their partisan differences aside, Deukmejian viewed Sher as having “great personal integrity,” said Steve Merksamer, who was Deukmejian’s chief of staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Sure, they’d had their differences; but after all they’d been through together, Frank didn’t want to see Leo get his heart broken.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
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The family history was searchingly entered into, and the arms of his father’s family were differenced on the most correct lines with those of the Jervays from whom his mother had sprung.
From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Henry Laing Gordon
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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
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
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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