difference
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The study, published in Autonomic Neuroscience, uncovered a striking left-right difference that may one day improve treatment strategies for irregular heartbeats, chest pain, angina, and stress-induced 'broken-heart' syndrome.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
"If you're in a position to do something for other people and to make a difference to them, then do it," Woodrow said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But who is this really for, and does it make a difference?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Perhaps a key difference that gives Costco the monocultural edge over our increasingly algorithmized culture is that it doesn’t revolve around a single type of storytelling, or even agreed-upon facts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The difference between my 21 years and his 26 was not, after all, as big as it had once been.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer also paid tribute to Widdecombe last week, describing her death as a "significant loss" as he called on people to "rise above" political differences.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Green jerseys were seen all over Mexico as people set aside their differences to cheer on El Tri.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
“People started looking at lifestyle differences in these beverages,” Appleby said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
The academic literature, he says, differentiates between “sympathy, empathy, compassion, kindness. There are very small, granular differences between each. Empathy itself has 43 different definitions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The similarities between genomes must explain the likeness between parents and their children, and mutations and recombination might explain their differences.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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 same Standard is duly differenced with their own Marks of Cadency and their Shields of Pretence for the different members of the Royal Family.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
Sir Edmund Mauley in the 14th century is found differencing the black bend of his elder brother by charging it with three wyvers of silver.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
These Dukes bore the Royal Arms as used in the reign of George III. and not as altered for Queen Victoria, differencing the accessories as well as the Shield with their labels.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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 Utting, R. B.
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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