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difference

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




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He said the turnover of a typical pub or restaurant can easily be between £500,000 and £1m, meaning a £1,000 saving "won't make much difference".

From BBC 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

While there is no “normal” band of salary ranges, some companies post ranges that are not just tens of thousands of dollars wide, but sometimes feature a 100% difference.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

This is a franchise that once saw its mascot give fans the finger and had two teammates blame a heated argument on a disagreement over the difference between a rat and a raccoon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

“Yeah, your dad has a PhD, and he still doesn’t know the difference between T-H-E-R-E and T-H-E-I-R.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Compared with organoids created from healthy individuals, those grown from the cells of people with Alzheimer's showed differences in proteins involved in communication between brain cells, inflammation, and pathways associated with the disease.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

While acknowledging the two countries had "significant differences", Rubio said they would "have to work through those".

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

He had initial differences with Hall over transfer cash, prompting another classic Keegan quote when he said: "It's not like the brochure."

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Listen to the differences between the C seventh30 , C major seventh3l , C minor seventh32 , C diminished seventh33 , and C half-diminished seventh34 .

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat, from the river that wears it away.

From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2010

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.

Tenants or neighbours of the great feudal lords were wont to make their arms by differencing the lord’s shield or by bringing some charge of it into their own bearings.

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 Lower, Mark Antony

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.




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