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differ

[dif-er] / ˈdɪf ər /




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A system designed to stop machines from rebelling will differ from one designed to hold laboratories responsible for testing practices, network architecture, safeguards, monitoring and intervention.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Two people of the same chronological age can differ considerably in cardiovascular health, metabolism, inflammation, and other measures of how well the body is functioning.

From Science Daily Sep. 16, 2026

Recipes, production and technology between store brands and their counterparts often differ, retail analysts say.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

A key issue is that menstrual cycles are highly individual, McNulty adds - they can differ between women, and one woman's experience can also change from one cycle to the next.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

While the savannas and mangroves of coastal southern New Guinea are fairly similar to those of northern Australia, other habitats of the hemi-continents differ in almost all major respects.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

New World screwworm differs sharply from most fly larvae.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

The show differs from other singing competitions in that the coaches have their backs turned to contestants as they audition.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

A single venom can contain around 100 toxin proteins belonging to multiple protein families, and venom composition differs from one snake species to another.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

The uncertainty comes on top of a voting system that already differs dramatically from state to state.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

For example, a child’s environment in a city will be vastly different than one in the country, or the soundscape of 1,000 years ago differs dramatically from a soundscape today.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

They then used standard deviation to measure how far each group differed from the overall study average.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

It said that rent rises were being seen across the UK, but the situation still differed depending where renters were looking.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Italy's far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said that although their "backgrounds and perspectives differed, that never prevented me from acknowledging her significance and her role in our nation's public life".

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

When those who lived with the cat were involved, the results differed drastically.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

I had to win the confidence of people who had been misled so often that they were afraid of anybody who differed from themselves.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Sure enough, Heyward and Freeman both headed south that day — still driving separately because of their differing morning routines.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Longer-range models depict widely differing possibilities for the last week of August and the first week of September, so confidence in the outlook is low.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Cope gave differing measurements of the vertebra at various times, making it unclear quite how large it actually was.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Tahoe straddles California and Nevada, plus several local counties and towns, often with differing guidelines on something as basic as stowing garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Such differing reactions caused a “historic amount of disagreement.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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