difference
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Or you can take the downgrade and get a refund of the difference between the original fare and what it calls the downgraded fare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Speaking to BBC Scotland News the day after his sister would have celebrated her 36th birthday, he said GPS monitoring would "absolutely make a difference".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Spitzer acknowledged that it was too soon to know whether the buyback event would make a difference in street safety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The difference between these two yields is a market-based measure of inflation compensation of 2.4% plus an inflation risk premium.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The people who had done the persuading saw it as a sales job: They knew there was a difference between corporate and consumer loans that the rating agencies had failed to grapple with.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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A summit designed to reset and improve EU-UK relations has just been delayed - again - over cross-Channel differences.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
A push for landmark US cryptocurrency legislation collapsed on Tuesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to bridge months-old differences over ethics, banking and how the fast-growing industry should be regulated.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Their partisan differences aside, Deukmejian viewed Sher as having “great personal integrity,” said Steve Merksamer, who was Deukmejian’s chief of staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
There are critical differences between artificial and biological neural networks, but both are nonlinear distributed networks that learn to encode representations relevant to their goals and act on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
My own argument agrees at certain points with Fish’s, but it is the differences that the reader should keep in mind.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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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Sixthly, They are also differenced in respect of the subjects.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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
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
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
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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