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difference

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




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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

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

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

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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