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difference

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




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MarketWatch Picks: ‘A huge difference in potential earnings.’

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Environmental advocates, who have pushed for the change for years, said the new requirements will make a major difference in addressing water pollution.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

The difference is that the Obamas appear to like each other and, especially in the early years of his presidency, had palpable chemistry that induced romantic fantasies.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

However, those gains may not be large enough to create a meaningful difference in patients' daily lives.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

“Name thing aside, if Rachel was telling the truth and Traveler intended that text for her—would it make a difference to you?”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

When the train takes off, the students make these personality differences known.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

He says the theory offers "one of the best explanations" for the differences in how people seek support and connection with others.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

That’s not great news for a woman like Waters who hopes, probably sincerely, that men and women can get past differences in the interest of getting that birth rate up.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Scientists have long suspected that inherited genetics helps explain these differences, but obtaining direct evidence from human studies has been difficult.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

There were, to be sure, important political and ideological differences between the two men, differences that became the basis for the opposing sides they took in the party wars of the 1790s.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

This page is delicately differenced from the fairies by his straight hair, his features, Asiatic, though handsome, his girdle and bracelets of pearls, and a short striped skirt about his loins.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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




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