key difference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyanddifference
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key
adjective
uk/kiː/us/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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difference
noun
uk/ˈdɪf.ər.əns/us/ˈdɪf.ɚ.əns/
the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not ...
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(Definition ofkeyanddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey difference
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Thekeydifferencebetween the two grooves is the way in which proteins can distinguish between base pairs.
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Instead, thekeydifferenceis the way the association was able to mobilize individual firms by using government subsidies to underwrite an apprenticeship in cooperation.
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Thekeydifferencewas that each intended to be re-elected, and to that end to create a society which was likely to re-elect it.
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Thekeydifferenceis that we now have a demand stack rather than a call stack.
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Thekeydifferencebetween these two reforms comes from the response in aggregate labor supply.
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Akeydifferencebetween the models is the way in which the utility of actions is discounted over time.
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Some people may suggest that thekeydifferencelies in the fact that withholding tax-exempt status merely involves denying a benefit, not imposing a cost.
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Onekeydifferencebetween these solutions and those of 3 is that both currents remain attached to the source.
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There is akeydifferencebetween referrals to conventional and complementary specialists.
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We suggest that thekeydifferencemay be the use of verbal versus visual referents.
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Thekeydifferencecomes from the difference in the conditional distributions under investigation.
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Thekeydifferencebetween dynamic-integrated agricultural systems and integrated agricultural systems is in management philosophy.
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So thekeydifferencebetween the models is target state risk propensity in the face of uncertainty in the stronger state.
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Thekeydifferenceis that the ad hoc approach considers regional interdependence and the creation of regional institutions that would formalise cooperation/integration, as anathema.
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Thekeydifferenceis that while they assert a connection of civil rights agenda to crime, that connection is underspecified.
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Thekeydifferencebetween static and dynamic preference handling boils down to the availability of preferences.
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But one cannot overlook onekeydifferencebetween 1966 and 1976 : the level of state repression.
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It is very much easier to remove an electron from the radical clock than from methyl, and this is akeydifference.
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Thekeydifferencewith our experiments is the self-referential structure in our setting.
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