differential
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"Our goal in collecting these and other biospecimens was to dig deeper into why there's this differential response," Sinha said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
“When he makes a mistake, how quickly can he recover? What’s his range in the open field? What’s the speed differential? All those things are things we’re looking through on just about everybody out there.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
But of course that would mean a bigger speed differential between a driver recovering energy and one still deploying.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
“The higher that differential is, the better off they are.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Mathematicians know how to describe them: they are wave functions, solutions to a differential equation called the Schrödinger equation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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