difference
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Lighthouse said the difference might reflect patients’ changing needs, while Centria and Hopebridge said comparisons of billed hours don’t account for quality or appropriateness of care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
So this gift isn’t going to make a material difference to your child’s life.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The difference between laboratory measurements and spacecraft observations suggested that the size and internal structure of Bennu's rocks were essential to understanding their behavior.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
That is a smaller gap than a week earlier, when Datafolha recorded a difference of four percentage points.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
I took pride in honing my new skills, especially as the difference my work was making began to show.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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The report then scanned this across differences in NCD burden, prevention and care -- by age, gender, economic status, education, place of residence, disability status, employment and migration status.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
McKenzie, who wants to study chemistry or become a firefighter, said he enjoyed speaking with people in different jobs and seeing the differences between "hands-on" roles and office work.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Laura Overdeck filed for divorce in March 2022, citing irreconcilable differences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The combination of genetic data and medical histories allows researchers to investigate diseases in much greater detail, potentially uncovering important differences that conventional diagnostic methods cannot detect.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The similarities between genomes must explain the likeness between parents and their children, and mutations and recombination might explain their differences.
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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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
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
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
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
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