difference
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Both teams are playing with backup quarterbacks, and the real difference here is Seattle’s smothering defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Tammy Gerber of local campaign group Buses4Us said the difference between capped and uncapped fares could run to £1,200 a year for someone commuting five days a week in the county.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
This refers to the difference between energy entering the region from the Sun, atmosphere, and ocean and infrared energy escaping back into space.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
That will make a difference to the risk you would be taking on.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
But there’s a difference between an old-fashioned financial panic and what had happened on Wall Street in 2008.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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By combining neutron imaging with X-ray techniques, the scientists hope to investigate pathologies preserved in fossils and examine how those ancient conditions compare with differences found in modern species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Was the prime minister a man you can do business with, I asked the president, given your political differences?
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“I don’t know if the U.S. News weights are appropriate in identifying which schools are the best ones. There are big differences, the differences are growing substantially over time.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The meeting marked the third sit-down between the two leaders, who have developed a cordial in-person rapport despite their political differences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
But the more mundane truth is that they never faced and therefore never fully resolved all their political differences; they simply outlived them.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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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This coat of Kirkpatrick is also borne by the Johnstons, the tinctures differenced thus—Arg., a saltire sa., and on a chief gu. three cushions or.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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
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
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
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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