difference
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The main difference, in his opinion, was that Swiss wrestling entails maintaining a constant grip on one's opponent, whereas there is more distance between wrestlers in Senegal.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
You can’t question a difference you have no way of seeing.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
The spiral's shape determines how it responds to this flow, similar to the difference between screws with right- or left-handed threads.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
It is that consistency across 90 minutes, and the season as a whole, that Manchester City manager Andree Jeglertz believes will demonstrate the difference.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
And when she’s 55, he’ll be 75, and that’s not so big a difference.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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The nascent operation has been taking advantage of wide price differences across providers, the types of inefficiencies that have been tougher to come by in mainstream markets such as stocks and options.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
But Volk, from Berlin's Humboldt University, told AFP there were key differences with France, which has a "completely different tradition when it comes to confrontational forms of protest".
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
“We have similarities running the ball but also differences too,” Williams said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Scientists have long wanted to understand whether Jupiter handles the solar wind differently from Earth and what those differences might reveal about other objects throughout the universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Since twins share identical genetic material, he reasoned, any substantial similarities between them could be attributed to genes, while any differences were the consequence of environment.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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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In all such cases as these, the Arms were not the paternal coat in any way differenced, but what now would be designated “fresh grants.”
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
Rules of general enunciation made false in the applying, by the inability of perceiving in the instance the differencing conditions which qualify the rule, or suspend it.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
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
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
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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