difference

It’s the difference between buying groceries and knowing what groceries need to be bought.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The difference in medication adherence was reflected in how much patients' blood pressure improved.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

For Ukraine's troops on the ground, several of whom spoke anonymously to the BBC, reliable connectivity is the difference between life and death.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Both polls show a difference between the candidates that falls within the margin of error, locking them in a statistical tie.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Despite the slight difference, I still looked her straight in the eye.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

There are meaningful differences, of course, between a stranger navigating an unfamiliar shopping list and a husband who should know what his own family eats.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

By tracing the genetic origins of these clones and comparing patterns of gene activity, the researchers connected differences in DNA copy numbers with the types of cells present in each tumor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

He devoted a full two months to revising Washington’s draft, amplifying Madison’s earlier account of the need to rise above party differences and rally behind the elected representatives of the national government.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Prince John of Eltham, as I have already shown, and after him the Hollands, Dukes of Exeter, differenced England with a Bordure of France: No. 24.

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

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

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

This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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 R. B. Utting