difference
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"She was a humanitarian whose contribution has made a profound difference across our country," Field said of Parton, who won an Emmy in 2021.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Jersey Trees for Life said legacy donations made "a huge difference" to it.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
What’s the real-world impact of a nine-basis-point difference in COLA?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
A clear difference emerged during the first day of recovery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
From the beginning, there was a huge difference in the way Parks Canada conducted its search from all the previous hunts for the two fabled ships: finally, they prioritized seeking information using oral histories.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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People who leave charities donations, legacies and bequests in their wills make noticeable differences to organisations, no matter what the amount is, sector leaders say.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Their partisan differences aside, Deukmejian viewed Sher as having “great personal integrity,” said Steve Merksamer, who was Deukmejian’s chief of staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The researchers identified several consistent differences in the genome architecture of cells from people with Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
There are critical differences between artificial and biological neural networks, but both are nonlinear distributed networks that learn to encode representations relevant to their goals and act on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
There, like Darwin, he observed astonishing differences between closely related species that had been separated by channels of water.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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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Younger branches differenced in many ways, following no rule.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.—We call this specialty the bias of each individual.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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