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difference

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




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This will make an enormous difference to the actual purchasing-power returns of anyone buying a 30-year bond with fixed 5% interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Both teams are playing with backup quarterbacks, and the real difference here is Seattle’s smothering defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

She said she believed living outside of university "made no difference" in terms of immersing herself in university life.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The difference this time is that we don’t have to wait for the benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I knew if I bought the mug I’d be flat broke but that didn’t make any difference.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

That’s one of the many differences between the two leaders.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

As a soldier assigned to help in the American Academy’s early days, Graham is there for its first session and hears the chairman ask his guests to put aside their wartime differences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

It called for an investigation and urged all parties to resolve their differences through dialogue and take steps to prevent similar incidents.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

They did, however, find differences in school performance.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Age and ender differences in children’s self- and task perceptions during elementary school.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

The use of the bendlet sinister for the debruising of crests still exists in 192 England and Ireland, but crests are not usually differenced for any reason in Scotland.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

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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