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difference

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




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Consumers would therefore only see a price difference if domestically produced gas replaced more expensive imports.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

“That’s someone who understands the difference between a bet and a position, even if the money came from the same source.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Lupus, for example, can affect as many as nine women for every one man, yet the genetic factors behind this striking difference have remained poorly understood.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Perhaps I’m protective of that difference because, of course, companies have always tried to stoke and steer desire.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

And when she’s 55, he’ll be 75, and that’s not so big a difference.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

"Expanding the Homo genus to also include species of Australopithecus and Paranthropus will allow us to account for differences without regularly reclassifying particular groups."

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

For the most part, the differences between doing that via dividends or buybacks are minor.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Officials had been in discussions with Exchange for Change for months, after it emerged there were key differences in what the Welsh government wanted from the operator and what it was prepared to deliver.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Tests show there are only a handful of differences in their DNA sequences, which indicate the infections are part of the same outbreak, with a common source.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Here is the only occasion within the revolutionary generation when political differences ended in violence and death rather than in ongoing argument.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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 Label, with various Differences, has generally been the Royal Mark of Cadency; and now differenced silver Labels are borne, to mark Cadency, by every member of our Royal Family.

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

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

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 R. B. Utting

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

Tenants or neighbours of the great feudal lords were wont to make their arms by differencing the lord’s shield or by bringing some charge of it into their own bearings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various




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