"exacerbate the difference" is correct and used in written English.
It is generally used to describe making a difference more noticeable or extreme, usually to make a situation worse. For example: "The new policies set by the government exacerbated the difference between the rich and the poor."
They shop at local clothing stores and restaurants more frequently than Nassau's older residents, who "have deep pockets but spend differently: they are paying college tuition, fixing up their homes or taking lavish vacations, and I think the Nassau sales tax will probably exacerbate the difference".
This finding fits with the proposition that disrupting the underlying pixel structure might exacerbate the difference between the manipulated photos and people's expectations of how a scene should look.
"It's going to exacerbate the difference between prisoners who have access to good lawyers and those who don't".
"It's going to further exacerbate the difference between state prisoners who have access to good lawyers for their post-conviction proceedings, and those who don't," Vladeck said.
In this study population, diabetics presented a significantly higher prevalence of hypertension that could exacerbate the difference in EPCs levels as compared with nondiabetics.
It is likely that these services will just exacerbate the differences that already exist in the quality of public transit in different areas.
With the yen nearing five-year lows against the American dollar this week, such trades may well continue.As rising interest rates in some countries exacerbate the differences between high-yielding currencies and low-yielding ones, such as Japan's, New Zealand's predicament may become more familiar.
One effect that may further exacerbate the differences we observed between successional and mature forest soils is that successional forest soils in the field also remained moister than mature forest soils throughout the year.
The upheaval that the Affordable Care Act caused when it remade the latter and created the health insurance exchanges seems to have exacerbated the difference.
The difference between optimal individual and optimal population performance increases with density, because it is competition among individuals that creates and exacerbates the difference between individual and group selection.
Finally, the models implemented in Städler et al. (2009) are rather simplistic, with an instantaneous shift from an ancestral population to subdivided populations that likely exacerbates the differences between the different sampling schemes more than a progressive shift toward an n-island model would do.
