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Assisted suicide is legal in a number of countries - including Canada, Australia and Belgium - as well as in Switzerland, though the circumstances under which it is legal differ between those nations.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Definitions of what makes a working-class voter differ depending on who you ask.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Comparing populations from different regions could reveal additional variation in head shape and help scientists better understand how local populations differ.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The two reports sometimes differ sharply month to month, but they head in the same direction over time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
This time, she was sure, was differ ent.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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 image Byfield presented in his 1840 memoir differs sharply from the one found in his later autobiography.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
The uncertainty comes on top of a voting system that already differs dramatically from state to state.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
I asked Arora how Deep Cogito’s approach differs from other techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation, which retrieves relevant proprietary data and business context and provides it to an AI model at inference time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
A military tribunal differs from civilian court in several ways.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
Participants were randomly placed into one of two groups that differed in how intensive and structured the intervention was and how much ongoing support participants received.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Investigators typically seek to learn whether the fund manager’s trading or risk-management practices differed from what they told their investors they would do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
I had appeared in Karhide in a queer kind of ship, and I differed physically from Gethenians in some respects; that wanted explaining.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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With 20 countries, there are often differing opinions and factions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
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
"I recognise that a wildlife intervention is a complex and sensitive issue, and one on which there are strongly held and differing views."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
From those nuclear areas, hunter-gatherers of some neighboring areas learned food production, and peoples of other neighboring areas were replaced by invading food producers from the nuclear areas—again at widely differing times.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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