differentiation

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Recent Examples of differentiation Experts say that part of why men seek out prediction markets can boil down to a simple biological differentiation. Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 6 June 2026 Motorola's serving of the Android software seems barebones at first, but digging into the menus reveals some attempts at differentiation. Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 4 June 2026 But, the truth is, culinary expertise is now a point of differentiation for cruise lines. Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2026 Allocating a team to redesign a standard interface block that has already been implemented elsewhere may be difficult to justify when differentiation lies at the system level, such as an inference chip’s ability to speed up neural network computations. Maysam Ghovanloo, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for differentiation
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Noun
  • Andrew Coffman, an Atlanta employment discrimination and civil rights lawyer, has represented employees and employers and worked as an internal investigator for companies.
    Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 25 June 2026
  • Since its founding, the EEOC has recovered billions of dollars for workers who faced discrimination, and in case after case, EEO-1 data played a foundational role.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Hertel succeeded former Director Robert Gordon, who resigned and received a $155,000 separation deal.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • News of the separation broke in September, with Kidman filing for divorce by month’s end and the pair reportedly planning on co-parenting classes and submitting a child support worksheet.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • There's a demarcation between those two and the rest of the center group.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • LaBarge frequently interrupts the telling to braid her narrative so tautly with those of others that their language blurs together, quotation marks vanishing, lines of demarcation eroding.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • There's an important distinction between a role being loved by fans and a role being loved by the actress who played her, however.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026
  • That distinction belonged to William McChesney Martin, who served from 1951 until early 1970.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 22 June 2026

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“Differentiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/differentiation. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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