difference
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New research led by UC Riverside suggests that a simple but overlooked process may help explain the difference: individual pieces of ice repeatedly collide with one another.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Another point of difference would be the property itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
The difference in southern Westchester is “you have a lot more quiet than you do than if you were living in the city,” said Mateo Lallemand, a sophomore at Rye Country Day School.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Bishop of Leicester raised in the House of Lords his concern "about the lack of clarity on the difference between harmful conversion practices and perfectly acceptable practices of pastoral care and indeed prayer".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
I knew if I bought the mug I’d be flat broke but that didn’t make any difference.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Our article shows that racial health disparities come from both differences in exposure to environmental stressors and different underlying vulnerability stemming from, for instance, genetics or access to healthcare.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
These differences help explain why one person may remain relatively healthy and resilient later in life while another develops age-related health problems earlier.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 16, 2026
“There’s economic differences in terms of what’s accessible for people to send in. People have different reward systems with their kids.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
These concerns are crystallized in his 1956 play “The Visit,” a work that has some of the hallmarks of the absurdist comedies of the period but just as many differences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Individual differences in music listening responses of kindergarten children.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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
This same 197 shield, No. 368—Or, a bend between six martlets sa., was also differenced by other families to mark their feudal alliance with the house of Luterell.
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
This is the earliest specimen of differencing I have met with.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
An interesting example of early differencing is cited by Sir Harris Nicolas, in his ‘Roll of Carlaverok.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower