difference
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Ruisard said the only difference in the diesel used by truck drivers and everyday consumers and the tax-free red dye diesel is the dye itself.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
This squeeze is already visible in Chinese banks’ sinking net interest margins—the difference between what they earn on loans and pay out on deposits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Keeping your balance on a revolving stage probably sounds easy when you compare it with battling demogorgons, but Gaten Matarazzo points out one big difference.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
But New England showed something last week in knocking off Buffalo, and it makes a big difference when Drake Maye doesn’t turn it over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Then he sneaked a glance at Chip, to see if this made a difference.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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"They were asking how he got on, and what were the major differences to translate to an NFL audience," said Scott.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
However, Chris Weston at Pepperstone added that "the discrepancy may reflect differences in revenue measurement rather than an outright deterioration in OpenAI's underlying business".
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Thinking through these differences and an individual’s unique needs and financial circumstances will help investors navigate the sometimes dizzying menu of Treasury options available.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Those differences suggest the migrants possessed specialized expertise and access to resources unavailable to many local residents.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
“As you become U.S. citizens, don’t lose who you are. Our differences are what make America great.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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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These first differences may themselves be differenced, giving the second differences Δu2 - Δu1, Δu3 - Δu2, ..., which are written Δ2u1, Δ2u2,...
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
In the Royal Heraldry of our own times the Bordure is not used as a Royal Difference; but its use is retained in Scotland for differencing Shields of less exalted rank.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
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
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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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