difference
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Only relegated Burnley and Wolves had a lower Expected Goals difference - comparing the amount of good chances created to those chances created against them - than Sunderland last campaign.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Crack spreads — the difference between crude-oil prices and the prices of refined products — have retreated from multidecade highs, offering some relief for the inflation outlook and potentially supporting equities, Rizzuto noted.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
It can make the difference for a firm’s survival or success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The experiment revealed a clear difference in the way manganese telluride interacted with the two X-ray polarizations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
“And even if I was, there’s a big difference between a lion and a gator.”
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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Even if Trump and Kim agree to meet, their differences over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme remain a major obstacle to any breakthrough.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Here are some of the potential differences in safety between private charters and major airlines:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
"You have to put your differences aside because you aren't able to change your players now, so you need everyone on side. Everyone has to be on the same page right now."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Researchers noted that the differences observed in the study could be clinically meaningful if they persist over time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Individual differences in music listening responses of kindergarten children.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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
These Dukes bore the Royal Arms as used in the reign of George III. and not as altered for Queen Victoria, differencing the accessories as well as the Shield with their labels.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
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
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
Tenants or neighbours of the great feudal lords were wont to make their arms by differencing the lord’s shield or by bringing some charge of it into their own bearings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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