difference
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Another important difference involved learning to choose better strategies over time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
That’s a $90,000 difference, after all, and I believe it would be unwise to gloss over.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
“The vet world is so mean,” Indiana veterinarian Kami Graber said on TikTok, describing heated reactions to an earlier video she’d posted about the difference in qualifications between vet technicians and vet assistants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
"What is different is the scale of attacks and the different types of weapons used in these attacks. This is what is the difference - they've doubled in power and in scale".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
What difference did it make where it came from?
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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It may also help scientists understand important differences between muscle regeneration and cancer, including why skeletal muscle can repair itself so effectively while cancers originating in muscle are relatively uncommon.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
However, the researchers caution that the differences were relatively small and that the results do not establish whether protein intake directly influences testosterone.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
DNA analysis identified three distinct evolutionary lineages, and those divisions matched the physical differences the team had documented.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
Beyond these minor wing differences, Sapkota could not identify any other consistent anatomical distinctions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
And probably there’d be some differences between Mom and Kate Gustano, too.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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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Shirland of Minster bore the same arms differenced with an ermine quarter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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
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 R. B. Utting
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 Mark Antony Lower
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