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The study, published in Autonomic Neuroscience, uncovered a striking left-right difference that may one day improve treatment strategies for irregular heartbeats, chest pain, angina, and stress-induced 'broken-heart' syndrome.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Winds, storms, rainfall and currents are all, in different ways, the planet trying to even out that difference.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The difference for Spain was that both of them went in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The key difference is that intervention in the yen is typically a one-time event and does not have a lasting impact.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Boaz looked at Anthony, and even in the dark, he realized that he could see a difference.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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The study did not investigate whether certain chimpanzees were naturally more interested in crystals than others, although the researchers say future work should consider differences in personality.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Thomas C. Hase’s lighting played up the psychic differences between those two places.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer also paid tribute to Widdecombe last week, describing her death as a "significant loss" as he called on people to "rise above" political differences.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Green jerseys were seen all over Mexico as people set aside their differences to cheer on El Tri.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
My own argument agrees at certain points with Fish’s, but it is the differences that the reader should keep in mind.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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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The use of the bendlet sinister for the debruising of crests still exists in 192 England and Ireland, but crests are not usually differenced for any reason in Scotland.
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
An interesting example of early differencing is cited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in his ‘Roll of Carlaverok.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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
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 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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