delta
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The price delta between base models is a non-trivial $7,300—which pushes the payback horizon to around nine years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
When used together, the drugs substantially increased the ability of gamma delta T cells to kill cancer cells in laboratory experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The VSC is a system by which the cars are forced to drive to a specified lap-time delta while a hazard on track is cleared.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Norris does not use a display on his dashboard showing his progress compared with his previous lap, the so-called delta, as most other drivers do.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Down Cairo way? Yeah. It’s in the delta of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Like Cairo in Egypt, in the Nile delta.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Among the most important contributors are heavy groundwater pumping, oil and gas extraction, the compression of relatively young sediments in river deltas, and the weight of expanding urban areas.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Another 400 gigatonnes are stored in ocean sediments and river deltas.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
In 18 of the 40 deltas, this downward movement, known as subsidence, already exceeds local sea-level rise.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
Her eyes were the same deep-set smiles as her son’s, with more extensive deltas of creases at the corners.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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