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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

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

"It's going to make a huge difference to me," Sarah tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Your level of wealth actually makes a huge difference to giving you a useful answer.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

It made no difference if we had company, or if one of us was sick, Mama would still read from the Bible.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Sure, senior voters remain more conservative than the general population, but the differences are becoming much less stark.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

These traders often look to profit from fleeting differences in asset prices, making speedy response times crucial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

"I think these differences will exist for the foreseeable future, and our job is to sort of manage those so that they never get out of control," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

One of the clearest differences appeared in the neon isotopes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

He was keen to elide the differences between ancient Rome and his own London, as well as those between Verona and Canterbury.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

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

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 Lower, Mark Antony

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

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.