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The difference is that the system failed her and I had help and was able to pick up the pieces of my life and stand back up on my feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

We want to demonstrate what happens to his retirement account if he decides instead to live abroad for five years in one of the other three cities and invests only the difference in living expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could make all the difference.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s a reminder that there’s a difference between what AI agents can technically do and what real-world conditions permit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“And even if I was, there’s a big difference between a lion and a gator.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

“Whether or not someone dislikes rankings, one has to acknowledge that there are huge differences in how universities educate students,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Scientists privately discuss differences in interpretations, agreeing on regular updates for the public via media briefings and social media postings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Those differences effectively committed the cells to separate developmental paths from the start.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

We can be sure that the Chinese side never lets pragmatic cooperation in areas of mutual interest obscure the core differences that divide us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

One might wonder why the Athenians and the Spartans did not sit down over a nice cup of tea and work out their differences, but they did not.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

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

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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