differential
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The Sun has differential rotation, meaning that different latitudes rotate at different speeds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Perkins added that it predicts the dollar’s growth differential will narrow within the next 12 months as Asian and European economies – hit more heavily by the energy shock – begin to recover.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
Senegal started with consecutive losses, but routed Iraq 5-0, giving it the best goal differential of all third-place teams and allowing it to advance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
But when the Seleção found the back of the Scottish net for the third time on Wednesday, Scotland knew its goal differential had cratered—and its week had suddenly become very painful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
If you’ve got an equation that tells you about the force that is being applied on an object, the differential equation reveals exactly how the object moves.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Interest rate differentials are usually the driver of forex rates because capital is attracted by higher returns.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The dollar’s recent rise against the yen is driven by interest-rate differentials between Japan and the U.S., he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
“The magnitude of the high/low price differentials is astonishing,” said the report’s Len Sherman, an executive-in-residence at Columbia Business School who has written extensively on the economics of the ride-hail industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
And there were a series of other near-misses, as there always are in this sort of race with a number of different categories of cars, and huge speed differentials.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Together we discussed and gravely considered the relative merits of side compression straps, spindrift collars, crampon patches, load transfer differentials, air-flow channels, webbing loops, and something called the occipital cutout ratio.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing differential
"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Epilogue
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4.3: Origins and Impact of the Western European Empires in the North Atlantic (Sources 1–9)
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"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 10
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