difference

Seeing people like yourself in the water can make a difference.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

She appreciates that some people might be sceptical about the difference breathing techniques actually make to stressful situations but urges people to try them.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The question now is, do school phone bans actually make a difference in students’ lives?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

That difference allows researchers to observe aging and lifespan outcomes in dogs much more quickly than would be possible in human studies.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

The cave is cold, or I am cold—I'm not sure there’s a difference between me and the cave at this point.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

"Financial support from parents often carries a powerful emotional meaning and some siblings tend to interpret differences in support as signs of favouritism, unequal love or a lack of recognition."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

A hotter southern mantle could indicate that Mars once had a magnetic field strong enough to produce differences in magnetism between the two hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

York had filed for divorce from his wife in May due to irreconcilable differences, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Ideological differences aside, the personas and careers of Messrs. Vance and Obama bear weird similarities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Age and ender differences in children’s self- and task perceptions during elementary school.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

On a boss in the vaulting of the choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, is his badge, a Stafford knot argent, differenced by a crescent sable, and on a stall-plate below are his arms, quarterly:—1.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.

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

Sir Edmund Mauley in the 14th century is found differencing the black bend of his elder brother by charging it with three wyvers of silver.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

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