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"Social tariffs on energy is one of the main things I think that could really make a difference to people," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

That difference is easy to lose sight of once words like “rogue,” “escape” and “hive mind” enter the story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

In this case, gap refers to the difference between the portion of users who selected ChatGPT versus Google Gemini.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

But an artist as big as Sheeran can make up the difference.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Having canned enough food to feed yourself could mean the difference between surviving until spring or starving.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The mismatch in priorities isn’t new, and the last attempt at hashing out differences over AI is a cautionary tale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Our article shows that racial health disparities come from both differences in exposure to environmental stressors and different underlying vulnerability stemming from, for instance, genetics or access to healthcare.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Those differences can make it harder to precisely determine which therapy is truly best.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

People who leave charities donations, legacies and bequests in their wills make noticeable differences to organisations, no matter what the amount is, sector leaders say.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The triple-A tranches all traded at one price, the triple-B tranches all traded at another, even though there were important differences from one triple-B tranche to another.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

It is the wonderful and final expression, repeated, but subtly shaded and differenced, in the three characters of Albert, Rosette, and Madeleine herself, of the aspiration which, as I have said, colours Gautier's whole work.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

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

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