difference
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I came to know the difference from the inside.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
In comparison, those with lower levels of participation had an average physiological age of 69.9 years, a difference of about three years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Liverpool-born coach describes himself as the yin to Tuchel's yang and acknowledges their partnership can "look a bit strange at times" because of their difference in height and background.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Perhaps the difference lies in the two types of internationalism, or “globalism,” as some like to say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Lucky or unlucky, the sharp angle of the tamping iron made all the difference to Phineas.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The researchers noted that "geographical regions influence the risk of GI cancers," suggesting that regional differences should be considered when making dietary recommendations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Thomas C. Hase’s lighting played up the psychic differences between those two places.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
They had done so much together, struggled together against the odds in 1776, represented America in Europe during the 1780s, risen above their political differences during Washington’s administration.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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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H.R.H. the Prince of Wales bears a Shield—Quarterly, 1 and 4, England; 2, Scotland; 3, Ireland, differenced by a plain label of three points argent.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
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 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
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.
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
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