difference
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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
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
There was perhaps an extra knob or two on the misshapen head, teeth were missing—but to that vast, kindly ugliness the beating had made no real difference at all.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“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 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
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
As a result of these differences, Germany became two separate countries for forty-five years.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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 same Standard is duly differenced with their own Marks of Cadency and their Shields of Pretence for the different members of the Royal Family.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
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
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
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
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