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




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There isn’t one type of European food, and despite the difference in regulatory approach here and there, food in Europe is also not definitively healthier than in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Backlog built on double orders is not the same as backlog built on demand, and the difference only shows once supply catches up.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

"I have not noticed a huge difference yet, but I also have a lot of woods" behind the property.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

But the other difference is that Goode has spent his entire life immersed in the world of reptiles, starting long before he even contemplated making a documentary.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

“It’s like he doesn’t see me. What I want makes no difference to him.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Most tellingly, the court twice quoted the very language ADF has cherry-picked from Virginia and reiterates throughout its campaign to transform sex-equality law: that “physical differences between men and women” are “enduring.”

From Slate Aug. 7, 2026

Researchers found that these differences were not statistically significant.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

Those differences mean the dough is constantly changing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The country music star filed for divorce from his wife in Tennessee’s Williamson County on May 18, citing irreconcilable differences.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

This is a typical human response to recognizing differences that can become a problem when more than one group wants or needs the same resources.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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 Seal of William Fraser, No. 365, from Mr. Laing’s Collection, exemplifies in a singular and interesting manner the early use of a differenced Label.

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

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2010

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 Utting, R. B.

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

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 Utting, R. B.

This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony




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