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




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“It’s as simple as starting to replace some plants or adding native plants in here, and that difference can be made pretty quickly,” Sarabia said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Northamptonshire-based Robert Rhodes, who has appeared in Silent Witness and House of the Dragon, said: "The media industry needs to start reflecting the true experience of people with visible difference."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

That difference was equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional years of cognitive aging over the study period.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

On a 10-year view, the difference between buying into the S&P 500 at the best time and buying into it at the worst time was worth an astonishing 25% per year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Saving precious daylight hours could mean the difference between harvesting the food before the first frost or not, and having enough nourishment for the winter or not.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Scientists have long wanted to understand whether Jupiter handles the solar wind differently from Earth and what those differences might reveal about other objects throughout the universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Using experimental detectors made from lithium fluoride crystals aboard the Orion spacecraft, researchers have obtained preliminary measurements that reveal unexpected differences in radiation exposure between the two environments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Using images of a male and female with visible differences, we tested five popular AI tools to understand if and how they would interpret the prompt "make this person normal".

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 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

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 granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat, from the river that wears it away.

From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

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

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

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


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