difference
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The difference is that the quantum computer can process information that those electrons carry that would otherwise be lost.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Not only are the vast majority of young men within this range, the difference between being at the lower end or the higher end of this limit is largely meaningless.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026
Although regional officials met the group searching for the missing several times in the second half of 2025, relatives complained it made little difference.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The difference helps explain why the island of Mallorca, struggling with overtourism, wants fewer budget-minded European vacationers and more high-spending Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“You didn’t use the hyphen. I can tell the difference if you’re not using the hyphen.”
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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Those differences suggest that semaglutide may be doing more than simply recreating the effects of eating less.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Until the third evening of the third Test at Edgbaston, most of those differences seemed positive.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Beijing said on Friday it was "ready to work with India... by strengthening communication, enhancing cooperation, and properly handling differences".
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
It depends on institutions capable of balancing continuity with reform, order with dissent, and national community with differences of region, language and belief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
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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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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
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
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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