difference
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Even if cubicles were slightly more expensive to maintain or consumed more water, this would not necessarily be enough to justify a price difference compared with urinals, she added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
If having a relaxing weekend is important to you but not to him, that difference will eventually become a larger issue.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
“There’s a big difference between a project that is only 25% done or 50% done, versus something that is 99.6% done,” said Seth Lehman of Fitch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the end, that was probably the difference.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Lucky or unlucky, the sharp angle of the tamping iron made all the difference to Phineas.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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“So, what are the differences between me and my opponent?”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The mayor later said that he and the MTA chairman have their differences of opinion but that they both agree on the need for faster bus trips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The analysis is also designed to incorporate macroeconomic events and even industry differences within countries.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Kean says studying the differences between human reasoning and the way large language models operate could provide useful ideas for the development of future AI systems.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The country was united in concern for Garfield, even though the bitter differences of the Civil War had been slow to disappear.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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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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Perseverance is the endurance in one or other of these pentads until the attainment of the desired end, and is distributed into the differenced and the rest.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
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
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.—We call this specialty the bias of each individual.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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