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difference

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




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At 32, I like to feel fairly confident that, when it comes to relationships, I know the difference between love and comfort.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

And as the crosstabs showed, that difference was almost entirely among Latino men.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

The difference appeared to be driven largely by fewer ischemic strokes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Then again, as the family tree that prefaces this memoir makes clear, it made no difference that the Moritz family had lived in German territory since the 18th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

And when she’s 55, he’ll be 75, and that’s not so big a difference.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

He says what's striking about Aberdeen is its joined-up approach, and the fact people "rolled up their sleeves" and overcame differences.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

After taking these differences in screening exposure and follow-up into account, the researchers concluded that overdiagnosis may be substantially less common than earlier estimates suggested.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The differences in how AI has been developed and deployed within each country and then to other parts of the globe make a clear finish line basically nonexistent.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

That’s one of the many differences between the two leaders.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

They had done so much together, struggled together against the odds in 1776, represented America in Europe during the 1780s, risen above their political differences during Washington’s administration.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Nothing gay, nothing gaudy; not a chain or a sash differenced one from another.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

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

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

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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