difference
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Or you can take the downgrade and get a refund of the difference between the original fare and what it calls the downgraded fare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"It's made an enormous difference for people on all kinds of levels, with all kinds of perhaps physical restrictions on how they can move."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
For gold, the difference between those two outcomes is enormous.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
By throwing a naive character into this environment, what were you aiming to expose about the difference between posturing around these subcultures and the lived reality of them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
But there’s a difference between an old-fashioned financial panic and what had happened on Wall Street in 2008.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
These differences help explain why one person may remain relatively healthy and resilient later in life while another develops age-related health problems earlier.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
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
But the more mundane truth is that they never faced and therefore never fully resolved all their political differences; they simply outlived them.
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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The same Standard is duly differenced with their own Marks of Cadency and their Shields of Pretence for the different members of the Royal Family.
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
Sir Edmund Mauley in the 14th century is found differencing the black bend of his elder brother by charging it with three wyvers of silver.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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 R. B. Utting
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