difference
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For all Milburn's talk of grand ambition – his plans will not, any time soon, make much difference to the ballooning costs to welfare.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 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
His simulations found eight produced slightly better outcomes, but he concluded the difference didn’t justify the burden of extra meetings.
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
The dark wood paneling, sparkling chandeliers, and patterned carpets were as luxurious as one would find in any fine house, but there was a subtle, masculine difference in the feeling of the place.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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“We don’t actually see the differences in skin color, nationality or the language you spoke when you were a kid,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
United Airlines released a statement Friday saying it would waive change fees and fare differences for passengers who opt to reschedule their trip for a new flight departing on or before Nov. 20.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Zhang recognized that this approach could overlook important biological differences.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Scientists have discovered that a hidden effect of extreme heat inside magma may help explain these striking differences.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Granted, the differences between “dead,” “very dead,” and “extremely and permanently dead” are not easy to comprehend.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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