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difference

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




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But an artist as big as Sheeran can make up the difference.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

While leaders with unique strengths sometimes make a difference no one else could have, Mr. Diamond says that many others often would have had similar achievements under the same circumstances.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

“In many areas, there are currently more sellers than buyers, creating opportunities to negotiate on price or seek concessions that could outweigh the monthly payment difference between a 6.5% and 7% mortgage.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Speaking to BBC Scotland News the day after his sister would have celebrated her 36th birthday, he said GPS monitoring would "absolutely make a difference".

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Nowadays there was barely any difference, and the last thing I wanted was to get near any of them.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

BlackRock wants to address those differences and says it can now use technology to bring customized features to companies and plans of all sizes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

These concerns are crystallized in his 1956 play “The Visit,” a work that has some of the hallmarks of the absurdist comedies of the period but just as many differences.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

A summit designed to reset and improve EU-UK relations has just been delayed - again - over cross-Channel differences.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

A push for landmark US cryptocurrency legislation collapsed on Tuesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to bridge months-old differences over ethics, banking and how the fast-growing industry should be regulated.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

So very small differences in the mouth and lips can mean the wrong harmonic comes out.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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 family history was searchingly entered into, and the arms of his father’s family were differenced on the most correct lines with those of the Jervays from whom his mother had sprung.

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Henry Laing Gordon

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2010

Tenants or neighbours of the great feudal lords were wont to make their arms by differencing the lord’s shield or by bringing some charge of it into their own bearings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 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

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




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