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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

He added: "With the benefit of hindsight, would that have made a difference to the outcome? I don't think so. The events that occurred to these babies were events that occurred after they were born."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

There’s a big difference between a verbal agreement and a legally binding contract.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

He was young enough to be my friend and had taught me how to tell the difference between pearls and glass beads.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

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 most surprising findings was that sitting itself did not seem to be the primary factor behind the observed brain differences.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

It was an ill-starred pairing, Keegan resigning after only eight months following differences with Ashley and Newcastle's hierarchy, including his former England player Dennis Wise, who was executive director.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Since twins share identical genetic material, he reasoned, any substantial similarities between them could be attributed to genes, while any differences were the consequence of environment.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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 coat of Kirkpatrick is also borne by the Johnstons, the tinctures differenced thus—Arg., a saltire sa., and on a chief gu. three cushions or.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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

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.

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