difference
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But it's still a job she enjoys, particularly when she knows she's made a difference in a person's life.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
I came to know the difference from the inside.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
This is the number, expressed in percentage terms, that shows the difference between the interest they earn on their assets and the costs they pay depositors and debtholders to borrow money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Although stomach cancer showed a trend toward higher risk, about 77% higher among heavy chili pepper consumers, the difference did not reach statistical significance.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Well, it makes no difference how they were caught,” he said.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Thomas C. Hase’s lighting played up the psychic differences between those two places.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
To investigate, the research team asked volunteers to sort morphed images of cars into two categories by identifying subtle visual differences.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The opportunity is that, with a proper charm offensive, Burnham - like Starmer - could win Trump over in spite of their political differences.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
Despite their differences, the two fit perfectly together.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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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It is the wonderful and final expression, repeated, but subtly shaded and differenced, in the three characters of Albert, Rosette, and Madeleine herself, of the aspiration which, as I have said, colours Gautier's whole work.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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
In the Royal Heraldry of our own times the Bordure is not used as a Royal Difference; but its use is retained in Scotland for differencing Shields of less exalted rank.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
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
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