difference
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The country partially lifted a ban on fuel exports last month, executives said, but it has hardly made a difference to global supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It seems to me that you want to know the difference between products and activities that use AI versus products and activities that are generated entirely by AI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The result is a facility that stands in stark difference from the John McKay Center, which cost $70 million when it opened in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"I have not noticed a huge difference yet, but I also have a lot of woods" behind the property.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
In reality, Maggie and Kate Fox were fourteen and eleven when the rappings began, certainly old enough to know the difference between right and wrong.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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"These differences may seem small at first, but they can add up in ways that affect learning, memory and everyday functioning."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Experts say there are differences between how the European Union and the U.S. regulate food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
In fact, Congress enacted Title IX, the statute requiring equal opportunity for women athletes, because it was concerned about sex discrimination, not physical differences between men and women.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Whatever differences there were between the candidates in this race, those differences are nothing compared to the contrast in November,” McMorrow wrote on X. “The only way we get there is together.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Sex differences in the factors which predict musical attainment in school aged students.
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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Mantlings blazoned with achievements of arms are sometimes adjusted in folds to form a background to the composition, and they are also occasionally differenced with various charges.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
An interesting example of early differencing is cited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in his ‘Roll of Carlaverok.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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 Lower, Mark Antony
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 Lower, Mark Antony
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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