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difference

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




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But more than three years on, the law is stuck in government consultations and has made no practical difference.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The results suggest a similar association in men and women, without a statistically significant difference between the sexes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

How much credence a court gives to both the guideline range versus the commentary details matters a lot in a case like Beiard’s, as it can mean the difference of years worth of prison time.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

How you cook the eggs makes such a difference, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

There was one major difference between the fuel in the spent storage pools and the fuel inside the reactors.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Her report, called the Childhood Lottery, found that deprivation alone could not explain the differences in their experiences.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Laura Overdeck filed for divorce in March 2022, citing irreconcilable differences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

But he exited the project early due to creative differences, leaving “It: Welcome to Derry” showrunner Brad Caleb Kane to expand the legend of a woman whose motives were fairly basic.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

“There may be differences between sources, or other components of red meat may contribute.”

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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

This eliminates the need for an elaborate system of cadency, though to prevent confusion, the spouse's and heir's arms are differenced.

From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Ann Wilson

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

Rules of general enunciation made false in the applying, by the inability of perceiving in the instance the differencing conditions which qualify the rule, or suspend it.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

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

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

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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