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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

I was very conscious of our 19-year age difference, so I sent my best childhood friend a picture of us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Simon: "During that period, what could have been done? You said that he was seeking some help. What might have made a difference, do you think?"

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Both false alarms and true warnings will be improved by knowing the difference between a bad day on the mountain and a positive signal that a volcano is on the brink of eruption.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

How did he enrapture millions of souls despite political, religious and geographical 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

The researchers then examined how those genetic differences affected the plants themselves.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Well, if you expect Madge to accept your differences, then could you do the same for her?”

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

On a boss in the vaulting of the choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, is his badge, a Stafford knot argent, differenced by a crescent sable, and on a stall-plate below are his arms, quarterly:—1.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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

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

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