difference
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In contrast, Bompastor's risks proved the difference, and they were made with former Chelsea boss Emma Hayes, who mastered the art of bullish decisions, watching on in the stands alongside Sarina Wiegman at Stamford Bridge.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
"I'm excited we established a signature that can help us better understand the difference between people who can maintain excellent cognitive performance and people who show cognitive decline," he said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 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
“As there is no such person as Judge Quinzy, whether he is pleased or not makes no difference to me,” she answered.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
“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
At the beginning of the study, people with high and low ARC scores showed no obvious differences in cognitive performance.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Combining these groups could obscure important differences in their underlying health and pregnancy risks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
The debates in the ratifying conventions of the respective states only exposed the irreconcilable differences of opinion that the Constitution had so deftly bundled together.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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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This same 197 shield, No. 368—Or, a bend between six martlets sa., was also differenced by other families to mark their feudal alliance with the house of Luterell.
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
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
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
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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