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• Your clients may not be able to tell the difference on their own.
  — Ray Corral, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Here's how to tell the difference.
  — John Tufts, IndyStar, 10 Dec. 2025
• Read on to learn how to tell the difference between a canker sore and a cold sore.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 13 Apr. 2024
• The easiest way to tell the difference is to look for a bulb.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2023
• On the outside, most people won't be able to tell the difference.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
• Duerson, lost so deep in his delusion, can't tell the difference.
  — EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
• The easiest way to tell the difference is to look at the label.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2024
• One of the best ways to tell the difference, Pratt said, is to look for a hump at the shoulders.
  — Cnn, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
• Fans seem largely unable to tell the difference between the two of them, too.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
• Saiko can tell the difference in practical ways.
  — Michael Collins, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
• The two were flummoxed when asked how outsiders could tell the difference between them.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
• Here's how to tell the difference What are common symptoms of norovirus?
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2024
• No staff member — not even the pizza king himself — could tell the difference.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
• The team set out to see if these wild fish could indeed tell the difference between divers based on visual cues.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
• Fakes have become so good, even the savviest sneaker-heads can’t tell the difference.
  — Sol Rashidi, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• The average eye, though, would never be able to tell the difference.
  — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
• Learn to tell the difference between simple moisture loss and true spoilage.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2026
• That’s the case even if the images are fake because other students may not be able to tell the difference.
  — Anna North, Vox, 2 May 2024
• The only way to tell the difference is to run genetic testing.
  — Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
• Scientists don’t yet have enough data to tell the difference or to know how much signal comes from what type of source.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
• So, given the wide variations, don’t count on color to tell the difference.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
• If the human can’t tell the difference, the computer passes the test.
  — Tamilla Triantoro, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
• The easiest way to tell the difference is that toxic black mold often has a stronger, more pungent smell.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 22 Feb. 2025
• That answer drew a round of questioning from other justices about how to tell the difference.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
• This is one way that a provider may be able to tell the difference between Lyme disease and ringworm.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 3 Aug. 2024
• That may all change with the knowledge that honeybees can learn to tell the difference between even and odd groupings.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• Prepared owners can tell the difference.
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• And most investment portfolios still aren't built to tell the difference.
  — Carrie McCabe, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• When every company sounds the same, buyers can’t tell the difference.
  — Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
• These were people, who, in Yusuf’s words, couldn’t tell the difference between hope and delusion.
  — Taran Khan, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026