difference
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Denver and Nashville are only one hour apart, so the time difference shouldn’t be too much of an obstacle.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
That’s a difference of more than 7.6 million pounds of lettuce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Samos business owner Giannis Kagias said Turkish visitors had "made a big difference" to the island's economy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
But the most marked difference for the Bruins on that side of the ball should be the ground game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
From the beginning, there was a huge difference in the way Parks Canada conducted its search from all the previous hunts for the two fabled ships: finally, they prioritized seeking information using oral histories.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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These differences may have reduced direct competition by allowing the animals to pursue different kinds of prey.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
When the train takes off, the students make these personality differences known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
He says the theory offers "one of the best explanations" for the differences in how people seek support and connection with others.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Usyk pointed to his head and to his heart—and said the differences were there, the people familiar with the meeting said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“So...is that the only really big difference between the two worlds? Who your mom married? And then did that lead to all the other differences? What state they lived in, and...?”
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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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Shirland of Minster bore the same arms differenced with an ermine quarter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
Sir Edmund Mauley in the 14th century is found differencing the black bend of his elder brother by charging it with three wyvers of silver.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
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
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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