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The study, published in Autonomic Neuroscience, uncovered a striking left-right difference that may one day improve treatment strategies for irregular heartbeats, chest pain, angina, and stress-induced 'broken-heart' syndrome.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The difference was "particularly stark" in early education, the report said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But who is this really for, and does it make a difference?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Perhaps a key difference that gives Costco the monocultural edge over our increasingly algorithmized culture is that it doesn’t revolve around a single type of storytelling, or even agreed-upon facts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
But the Maple Tree said it didn’t make any difference.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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Thomas C. Hase’s lighting played up the psychic differences between those two places.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Click here for a graphic depicting differences and similarities in dementia risk across different countries.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Green jerseys were seen all over Mexico as people set aside their differences to cheer on El Tri.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
“People started looking at lifestyle differences in these beverages,” Appleby said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
Despite their differences, the two fit perfectly together.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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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These first differences may themselves be differenced, giving the second differences Δu2 - Δu1, Δu3 - Δu2, ..., which are written Δ2u1, Δ2u2,...
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 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 Utting, R. B.
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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 Utting, R. B.
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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