difference
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Since becoming involved with the charity, Mili said she had noticed a big difference in her daughter.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
For the Pelosi household, adjusting for investment characteristics made a substantial difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
"The difference from the last year is that the scale of these attacks is much, much, much bigger," Timchenko said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
A major study involving more than 750,000 pregnancies has uncovered an important difference in the potential pregnancy risks of popular weight loss medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
“As there is no such person as Judge Quinzy, whether he is pleased or not makes no difference to me,” she answered.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Combining these groups could obscure important differences in their underlying health and pregnancy risks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
A closer examination of individual protein sources revealed additional differences.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
This kind of habitat separation could potentially help maintain differences between species living in the same geographic area.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
By combining DNA analysis with subtle differences in wing patterns and ultraviolet light reflection, the team uncovered distinctions that had remained largely invisible to scientists.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
What are the differences between letters of the alphabet and music pitch names?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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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The family history was searchingly entered into, and the arms of his father’s family were differenced on the most correct lines with those of the Jervays from whom his mother had sprung.
From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Henry Laing Gordon
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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