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difference

[dif-er-uhns, dif-ruhns] / ˈdɪf ər əns, ˈdɪf rəns /




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The opening day at the Central Criminal Court encapsulated the realities of his life and the difference in opinions of him.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

This will make an enormous difference to the actual purchasing-power returns of anyone buying a 30-year bond with fixed 5% interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

I was very conscious of our 19-year age difference, so I sent my best childhood friend a picture of us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The difference this time is that we don’t have to wait for the benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The people who had done the persuading saw it as a sales job: They knew there was a difference between corporate and consumer loans that the rating agencies had failed to grapple with.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

That’s one of the many differences between the two leaders.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

As a soldier assigned to help in the American Academy’s early days, Graham is there for its first session and hears the chairman ask his guests to put aside their wartime differences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

By combining neutron imaging with X-ray techniques, the scientists hope to investigate pathologies preserved in fossils and examine how those ancient conditions compare with differences found in modern species.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Was the prime minister a man you can do business with, I asked the president, given your political differences?

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Except my map is a map of my differences.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales bears a Shield—Quarterly, 1 and 4, England; 2, Scotland; 3, Ireland, differenced by a plain label of three points argent.

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

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

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

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

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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