difference
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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
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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
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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 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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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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