differential

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"Our goal in collecting these and other biospecimens was to dig deeper into why there's this differential response," Sinha said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

“When he makes a mistake, how quickly can he recover? What’s his range in the open field? What’s the speed differential? All those things are things we’re looking through on just about everybody out there.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

But of course that would mean a bigger speed differential between a driver recovering energy and one still deploying.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

The pressure differential between an expanding gas bubble and the water quickly creates a void, or hole, through which this gas bubble shoots rapidly upward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

“Victory through airpower!” the NACA-ites repeated to each other, minding each decimal point, poring over differential equations and pressure distribution charts until their eyes tired.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly