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difference

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




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The streamlined reporting lines and management layers make a big difference, as does embedding AI into work flows.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

A key element of that training is discerning the difference between psychological and spiritual problems, he said.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

Vacher said the repayments made a difference for some families "between actually being able to access childcare and not".

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

As a Christian minister of an American Baptist congregation, I’ve spent more than 20 years in a pulpit — long enough to know the difference between protecting a church and conscripting one.

From Salon Jul. 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

RedBird Capital Partners founder Gerry Cardinale and legendary footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović delve into the complexities of running Italian football club AC Milan and navigating the differences between American and European sports cultures.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

On other, more meaningful measures, the differences were stark.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

"I was less surprised by the differences and more surprised by some of the similarities, particularly in the ways these risks are patterned across settings," Nichols said.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

Adams was distinctive, however, for his tendency to regard even serious political and ideological differences as eminently negotiable once elemental bonds of personal trust and affection were established.

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

Illegitimate children generally bore the paternal ensigns differenced by certain brizures.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2010

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

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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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 Utting, R. B.




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