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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

“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

“Many people have a hobby…. The difference between the normal range and the eccentricity observed in Asperger’s Syndrome is that these pursuits are often solitary, idiosyncratic and dominate the person’s time and conversation.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I don’t know if the U.S. News weights are appropriate in identifying which schools are the best ones. There are big differences, the differences are growing substantially over time.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Scientists call this type of organism a cryptic species, meaning it looks very similar to related species despite having significant genetic differences.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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

Listen to the differences between the natural minor3l , harmonic minor32 , and melodic minor33 scales.

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 family history was searchingly entered into, and the arms of his father’s family were differenced on the most correct lines with those of the Jervays from whom his mother had sprung.

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Henry Laing Gordon

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

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

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

An interesting example of early differencing is cited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in his ‘Roll of Carlaverok.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower