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With elections this close and millions of voters in the state, small tweaks to the election rules can make all the difference.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Who knows if less time in an airplane will make a difference, but a franchise that hasn’t won a postseason game since the 2018 season will look for anything to change that trajectory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

"It's going to make a huge difference to me," Sarah tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Your level of wealth actually makes a huge difference to giving you a useful answer.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Of course it was a Tuesday, which made a difference.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

These traders often look to profit from fleeting differences in asset prices, making speedy response times crucial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

While acknowledging the two countries had "significant differences", Rubio said they would "have to work through those".

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

One of the most surprising findings was that sitting itself did not seem to be the primary factor behind the observed brain differences.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

He had initial differences with Hall over transfer cash, prompting another classic Keegan quote when he said: "It's not like the brochure."

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

There were, to be sure, important political and ideological differences between the two men, differences that became the basis for the opposing sides they took in the party wars of the 1790s.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

The Seal of William Fraser, No. 365, from Mr. Laing’s Collection, exemplifies in a singular and interesting manner the early use of a differenced Label.

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

This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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 Lower, Mark Antony