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differential

[dif-uh-ren-shuhl] / ˌdɪf əˈrɛn ʃəl /










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The Ducks’ 273 goals this season are the most in franchise history but the 288 they allowed is third-worst all time, leaving the team with the second-highest goal differential of any playoff team.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

But the differential has been positive since the very tail end of 2020, and has spiked significantly since mid-February.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

"Our goal in collecting these and other biospecimens was to dig deeper into why there's this differential response," Sinha said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Haas' Oliver Bearman had a frightening high-speed crash at Spoon Curve, caused by a 50km/h speed differential between his car and that of Franco Colapinto's Alpine.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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