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Net interest income—the difference between what banks earn on loans and what they pay out on client deposits—grew 8.9% to 3.56 billion pounds, while the bank’s net interest margin expanded to 2.50% from 2.37%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The visual difference, today, between games released years apart is, arguably, negligible.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Sharma and Sarabia said even a handful of local additions could make a difference.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

For early humans, access to such environments could have made the difference between surviving in an unfamiliar landscape and being unable to sustain a population.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

There was perhaps an extra knob or two on the misshapen head, teeth were missing—but to that vast, kindly ugliness the beating had made no real difference at all.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

The simulated oxygen concentrations were lower than the experimental measurements, which the scientists attributed to differences between the simplified model and the more complex chemical composition of actual basalt.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The charity Changing Faces wants the film and TV industry to stop using scars, burns and other visible differences as marks of villainy and has started a petition calling for more positive representation.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The type of illness involved and the living situation drove differences in caregiving costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

I remember the woman who explained the pros and cons and price differences of various brands, how she measured my foot and told me I have an exceptionally narrow heel.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

In the first place, the “vie intérieure” calls forth a dialogue intérieur; an esoteric language, I would say, contrived predominantly for the “expressional” functions of speech, as differenced from its “impressional” purposes.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

In the Royal Heraldry of our own times the Bordure is not used as a Royal Difference; but its use is retained in Scotland for differencing Shields of less exalted rank.

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

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