difference
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Researchers suspect the genetic difference may influence how effectively the kidneys remove ImP from the blood, affecting how much of the compound remains in circulation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Asked whether she thought his message would make a difference for her, she once again paused.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
This is a semantic distinction without a difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Whoever she voted for, whatever their party affiliation, she felt it would not make a difference, Brooks recalled.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
"When you get right down to it, I suppose there's not much difference between eating a pig and eating a guinea pig," he said, holding out his hand to the dragon.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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We must be clear that differences between the entirely fictional Cathy and Clancy, a real and suffering person, are vast.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
While I am not agreeing with Mr. Lederman’s essay, I would imagine that Cornell students who have any views about potential differences between men and women will hesitate before stating them publicly at this point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The differences between the parties have been quite muddled for a while," one says.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The study also identified notable differences in how atherosclerosis appeared across the lifespan in men and women.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 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
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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
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
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
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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