difference

A lab-raised monkey, born without a fear of snakes, can be taught to fear them—but not to fear flowers, a difference that suggests an inherited readiness to learn a survival strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

With elections this close and millions of voters in the state, small tweaks to the election rules can make all the difference.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

He said the turnover of a typical pub or restaurant can easily be between £500,000 and £1m, meaning a £1,000 saving "won't make much difference".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Who knows if less time in an airplane will make a difference, but a franchise that hasn’t won a postseason game since the 2018 season will look for anything to change that trajectory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Imogene told him it didn’t make any difference because the password that day was softball.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

He'd been described by a manager as showing "a lack of remorse," something the tribunal found was clearly linked with his communication differences associated with having ADHD.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Despite acknowledging subtle differences with Lindsey—“I have my own way of doing things,” she wrote in a note to constituents last week—she has emphasized that they shared the “same values.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Each of the differences between the numbers in the two rows is significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when assessing whether a pattern is genuine.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

His department convened a “Bear Summit” this year to help bridge the differences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

As a result of these differences, Germany became two separate countries for forty-five years.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

This eliminates the need for an elaborate system of cadency, though to prevent confusion, the spouse's and heir's arms are differenced.

From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Wilson, Ann

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

An interesting example of early differencing is cited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in his ‘Roll of Carlaverok.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony