difference
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You have to realise that players from different cultures can be used to living a different lifestyle, and this can make a difference to how quickly or how well they fit in.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The difference this time is that we don’t have to wait for the benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
By the end of the study, the difference had dropped to 17%.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Both teams are playing with backup quarterbacks, and the real difference here is Seattle’s smothering defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Saving precious daylight hours could mean the difference between harvesting the food before the first frost or not, and having enough nourishment for the winter or not.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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“Ethiopia and Eritrea both pledged to set aside their differences and work together to strengthen regional peace and stability,” U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
However, the size of those differences steadily declined during the study period.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
It called for an investigation and urged all parties to resolve their differences through dialogue and take steps to prevent similar incidents.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Similarly, Amodei called on nations to put aside their differences to confront the “global threat” of AI misuse.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
A new section that is not a repetition will usually have noticeable differences in more than one of these areas.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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
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Nothing gay, nothing gaudy; not a chain or a sash differenced one from another.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
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 Mark Antony Lower
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
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
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