difference
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"If you watch rugby now, once you get in the 22 and if you don't take points from that, that's the difference in the game," said Jones.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
For the 40,000 Nathaniels of Los Angeles, and nearly 4 million of their neighbors, here’s hoping the next mayor of Los Angeles can make a difference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
This difference suggests that the material in the two rings may have originated from separate planets with different compositions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
The difference was about 148 basis points above the risk-free Treasury rate on Thursday, versus 77 basis points for the rest of the market, according to BofA Global.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
To residents of coastal towns in those regions, the height of the wave made all the difference.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Those differences could influence the properties and luminosity of the resulting supernovae, potentially helping explain why certain Type Ia explosions are unusually bright.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
La La filed for divorce from the NBA star back in 2021, citing irreconcilable differences, according to TMZ, which first reported on the settlement Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Here are some of the potential differences in safety between private charters and major airlines:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
There will be fighting about where to start and what to prioritize, and there will be massive intracoalition differences of opinion about what major structural reform looks like.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
Those who are less idealistic embrace colorblindness simply because they find it difficult to imagine a society in which we see race and racial differences yet consistently act in a positive, constructive way.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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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This coat of Kirkpatrick is also borne by the Johnstons, the tinctures differenced thus—Arg., a saltire sa., and on a chief gu. three cushions or.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
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
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
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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