difference
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In a second paper on September 16 in the same journal, researchers reported that the temperature difference appears to come from changes in the lunar regolith.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Another point of difference would be the property itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
That difference is easy to lose sight of once words like “rogue,” “escape” and “hive mind” enter the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
However, perhaps the key difference, is that the accused does not play a part in proceedings, and does not even need to be in court.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“So even if we could prove that Quinzy is a fake, it would make no difference, since he controls the majority,” she said.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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That pattern suggests the original gaps may have reflected differences between the types of people who used GLP-1 drugs and those who did not, rather than effects caused by the medications themselves.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Our article shows that racial health disparities come from both differences in exposure to environmental stressors and different underlying vulnerability stemming from, for instance, genetics or access to healthcare.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I think that generational differences and educational differences are as important, or more important, than gender differences because they’re so correlative to voting behavior,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Adding the value of other transfer payments like Medicaid would further reduce the income differences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
In fact, the differences in sound between a major key and a minor key is one of the first differences that a musician should be able to hear.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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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Younger branches differenced in many ways, following no rule.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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
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
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
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
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