difference
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Her show has all the trappings of true-crime podcasts you’ve heard before—911 tape-recordings, foreboding music—but here’s the difference: The women at the center of these crimes are telling us their experiences.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026
Tim O'Shea's side are only outside the relegation zone on goal difference, although they do have at least four games in hand on the teams around them.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 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
“What difference does it make to you?” she said stiffly, glancing at her watch.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Although the researchers discovered common structural patterns across sleep disorders, they also found differences associated specifically with parasomnias.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
The standard helps tasters judge the leaves without differences in brewing muddying up the comparison.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 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
A fatal crash in Florida has highlighted the differences in regulations of charter jet operators from airlines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
‘Even if two activities are alike social constructions,’ he writes, ‘if you want to take the measure of either, it is the differences you must keep in mind.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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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In the first place, the “vie intérieure” calls forth a dialogue intérieur; an esoteric language, I would say, contrived predominantly for the “expressional” functions of speech, as differenced from its “impressional” purposes.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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
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
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
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