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differentiate

[dif-uh-ren-shee-eyt] / ˌdɪf əˈrɛn ʃiˌeɪt /




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“It is during this period that leading companies find ways to differentiate themselves by innovating, delivering new and superior solutions, and driving durable growth. This is where PayPal needs to focus.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Each of these criteria have been used in prior studies to differentiate quality stocks from junk.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

This was used to differentiate between those with and without endometriosis, correctly identifying more than 95% of endometriosis patients.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

There was a lot of back-and-forth about what was needed to differentiate the product.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

The average Lovelace fifth grader could not differentiate this from her normal state, but Hazel was attuned to these kinds of subtleties.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

“But I think the basketball stuff is really what differentiates the experience…knowing how to work in a team, how to build relationships, being able to handle constructive feedback when you screw up.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 2026

Letting users revoke ACH access — which stops automatic bank withdrawals — at any time is one of the things that differentiates cash-advance apps from traditional lenders.

From MarketWatch Feb. 12, 2026

People fall in love with the gunk that differentiates us from one another.

From Slate Jan. 7, 2026

The mining differentiates American Bitcoin from other so-called digital asset treasuries, or DATs, Roth argued.

From Barron's Dec. 10, 2025

It’s just one more thing that differentiates us.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Instead, its leading firms compete through innovation, producing highly differentiated, technology-intensive components that occupy critical positions in the global AI supply chain.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

In a statement, Apollo described EasyJet as "one of the most attractive businesses in the global aviation sector and a highly differentiated franchise with significant long-term growth potential".

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

“These discussions confirmed that investors shared KNDS’ view of its differentiated industry positioning and their belief in KNDS’ long-term strategy,” the statement said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The study "A southward differentiated impactor forms the tapered shape of the South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the Moon" was published in Science Advances.

From Science Daily Jun. 22, 2026

Handbook of differentiated instruction using the multiple intelligences.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Some health researchers have been working to "destigmatise loneliness" by differentiating between chronic loneliness forced by circumstance and those who have agency to choose to live and spend time alone.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

"As experienced, well-educated clinicians they are spotting things and differentiating between indigestion and a heart attack."

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

The IPO will allow Quantinuum to position itself as “a premier, institutional-grade quantum asset because it’s differentiating its go-to-market approach,” he added.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

Survodutide is intended to mimic the GLP-1 hormone and reduce hunger, at the same time targeting fat in the liver through another hormone called glucagon—which it regards as a key differentiating factor.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

Others, like Dorothy Hoover and Doris Cohen, had highly refined understandings of theoretical math, differentiating their way through nested equations ten pages deep with nary an error in sign.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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