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difference

[dif-er-uhns, dif-ruhns] / ˈdɪf ər əns, ˈdɪf rəns /




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You can’t question a difference you have no way of seeing.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Author Yuval Noah Harari has been pointing out the difference between consciousness and intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

The key difference is whether starfish populations remain at naturally manageable levels or grow into destructive outbreaks.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Cancer patients have warned delays in scans could be the difference between life and death as Wales faces a shortage of radiologists.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

“The bridges aren’t burned. I’m so mad. Have been for a long time. But there’s a big difference between giving up hope and not being here. We’re still here, man.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

However, the findings also revealed some unexpected differences.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

The nascent operation has been taking advantage of wide price differences across providers, the types of inefficiencies that have been tougher to come by in mainstream markets such as stocks and options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

“We have similarities running the ball but also differences too,” Williams said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Governments have been pushed to bridge differences but progress has been slow and major breakthroughs scarce since the negotiations began on October 19.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Reports of women in science and other important professions occurred frequently, but there was also much discussion about the differences.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

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

The same Standard is duly differenced with their own Marks of Cadency and their Shields of Pretence for the different members of the Royal Family.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

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

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

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


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