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differ

[dif-er] / ˈdɪf ər /




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A system designed to stop machines from rebelling will differ from one designed to hold laboratories responsible for testing practices, network architecture, safeguards, monitoring and intervention.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Recipes, production and technology between store brands and their counterparts often differ, retail analysts say.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Views differ somewhat, with Grace Zwemmer, US economist at Oxford Economics, expecting rates to remain unchanged, but almost universally a rate cut appears to be off the table.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Definitions of what makes a working-class voter differ depending on who you ask.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

In general, things differ from one another, but people who disagree differ with each other.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

New World screwworm differs sharply from most fly larvae.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

In the UK, where education differs between the home nations, 15,566 students took the tests in 515 schools.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

The uncertainty comes on top of a voting system that already differs dramatically from state to state.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

In the suit, OpenAI says its “first expected hardware product is a new type of consumer device that differs materially from known Apple products.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

China differs only by having been unified much earlier.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Italy's far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said that although their "backgrounds and perspectives differed, that never prevented me from acknowledging her significance and her role in our nation's public life".

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Participants were randomly placed into one of two groups that differed in how intensive and structured the intervention was and how much ongoing support participants received.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Román would make the decision “based on” a point system that differed from what was laid out in the original request for proposals, according to an addendum sent to the bidders.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Oldenburg later said in an interview that their works differed in that Kusama relied on objects in a single, repeated shape, whereas his soft sculptures represented true-to-life objects.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Research shows that these religions differed from Christianity in many ways, including the power that women could hold in rituals.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, ap Iorweth acknowledged the differing contexts.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Sure enough, Heyward and Freeman both headed south that day — still driving separately because of their differing morning routines.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Cope gave differing measurements of the vertebra at various times, making it unclear quite how large it actually was.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Tahoe straddles California and Nevada, plus several local counties and towns, often with differing guidelines on something as basic as stowing garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

But my mother’s sharply differing opinion was an exception rather than the rule among tribal women.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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