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difference

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




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Political and media attention may have made a difference.

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

He continued, “And I thought, ‘Well, here’s the difference between my line of work and that line of work.

From Salon Sep. 22, 2026

“Regardless, the difference between our valuation assumption and the upfront sale price is arguably modest” versus Capstone’s over A$11 billion market value, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

I’d planned to quit anyway so it wouldn’t make any difference, but I hadn’t done anything wrong.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Those behavioral and ecological differences were gradually reinforced by natural selection across their genomes.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

“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

The meeting marked the third sit-down between the two leaders, who have developed a cordial in-person rapport despite their political differences.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

Such subtle structural differences can matter enormously in chemistry, particularly in drug manufacturing.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

He was honest, though, about the differences between real-life and movie spies.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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 page is delicately differenced from the fairies by his straight hair, his features, Asiatic, though handsome, his girdle and bracelets of pearls, and a short striped skirt about his loins.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2010

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 Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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




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