difference
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Natalie, 29, says she's replaced some of the clothes she wears round the house with supermarket thermal leggings and tops and says "it's made such a difference".
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
For some clients, the resulting savings are small, a function of the size of their IRAs and the difference between their current tax rate and their future tax rate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The difference: Louisiana at least has a reasonable distribution of fast chargers along its primary highways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
However, the instruments and techniques used during those appointments can make a significant difference.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
“My dear man, if I will not be able to see these awful ‘bulbs,’ as you call them, what difference does it make where you put them?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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These temperature differences provide favourable conditions for new low-pressure systems to form and strengthen.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
And while they share obvious similarities as innovation-driven, capital-intensive infrastructure build-outs, Smith argues that their differences are far more pronounced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The researchers also had to account for differences among the telescopes used to collect the observations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Across differences in politics and identity, South Asians I spoke with around Columbus also shared the same affordability concerns acutely felt by Americans everywhere.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
Despite our physical differences, it’s like looking into a mirror.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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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Sixthly, They are also differenced in respect of the subjects.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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
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
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 Mark Antony Lower
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
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