difference

On his social media accounts, the difference is striking: a face that was radiant in old pictures, now gone sullen.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

"You have house rules, family limits, discipline and consequences. But the difference is we look at discipline as learning and teaching rather than punishing."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

In practice, there’s no real difference between a microschool and private school — neither has a limit on enrollment.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Asked whether she thought his message would make a difference for her, she once again paused.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

I knew if I bought the mug I’d be flat broke but that didn’t make any difference.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The subtle differences by which Kyle plays older Hal versus Halogram Hal is really on sharp display in the finale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for women and gender equality, said that asking the question risked maintaining historic unfair differences in pay due to gender, race and disability inequality.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

We must be clear that differences between the entirely fictional Cathy and Clancy, a real and suffering person, are vast.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

In the early days of cryptocurrency trading, for example, it was easy for bitcoin traders to exploit wide price differences across exchanges around the world and take the other side of trades placed by rookies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

And probably there’d be some differences between Mom and Kate Gustano, too.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Mantlings blazoned with achievements of arms are sometimes adjusted in folds to form a background to the composition, and they are also occasionally differenced with various charges.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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

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