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difference

[dif-er-uhns, dif-ruhns] / ˈdɪf ər əns, ˈdɪf rəns /




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But an artist as big as Sheeran can make up the difference.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

While leaders with unique strengths sometimes make a difference no one else could have, Mr. Diamond says that many others often would have had similar achievements under the same circumstances.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Insp Ingrid Tozer, the West Mercia Police officer responsible for Shrewsbury town centre, said an increased police presence there was making a difference.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Even those who have already booked a flight should keep tracking it: If the fare does happen to drop, the airline could issue a voucher for the difference.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

The only difference was that I was going to be doing all of this tethered to Regan.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

BlackRock wants to address those differences and says it can now use technology to bring customized features to companies and plans of all sizes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

These concerns are crystallized in his 1956 play “The Visit,” a work that has some of the hallmarks of the absurdist comedies of the period but just as many differences.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

These differences help explain why one person may remain relatively healthy and resilient later in life while another develops age-related health problems earlier.

From Science Daily Sep. 16, 2026

A summit designed to reset and improve EU-UK relations has just been delayed - again - over cross-Channel differences.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

They observe that, “surprisingly, strategists on both the left and right, despite their differences, converge on the individual as the unit of power.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

This page is delicately differenced from the fairies by his straight hair, his features, Asiatic, though handsome, his girdle and bracelets of pearls, and a short striped skirt about his loins.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2010

Tenants or neighbours of the great feudal lords were wont to make their arms by differencing the lord’s shield or by bringing some charge of it into their own bearings.

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 R. B. Utting

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

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




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