segment
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The network aired a lengthy segment on the Thursday’s edition of “Today” to explain how its decision desk operates and comes up with its election night projections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Missing from that framing was the question that should have governed the segment: Who actually sent the material?
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
The new segment, which spans Microsoft’s full AI stack, “acknowledges that the economic return on AI infrastructure should not be evaluated solely through the margin of any one product,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Between a paved path and the floor-to-ceiling windows at the museum’s southern end sits a small, warped segment of grass that is already struggling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Relax, Rose. We’ve got until the end of May, and I’ll walk you through each segment, one step at a time. Tomorrow we’ll talk about how to write your memories.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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General Dynamics grew revenue across all four of its business segments, led by marine systems, its largest and fastest growing business, with revenue up 21% to $4.96 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Ultimately, he believes the new administration will have to "build bridges to the segments that have been operating well in the past".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
"The board of directors commended the very good operational performance of all business segments which enabled the company to capture higher market prices," the company said in its earnings statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
New research published in Science Advances suggests that their extraordinary evolutionary success was partly driven by mobile segments of DNA known as transposable elements, or "jumping genes."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
The maturation of a fly is the serial unfolding of these segments, like the stretching of a live accordion.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Software that can’t operate in a segmented network will soon be unfit for federal use, and agencies are writing this requirement into future contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The 2025 SDR, external recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Public transit there feels more segmented, so traveling to Oakland can take a long time, and getting to outdoor or hiking destinations isn’t really feasible without a car.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
"Instead, it was segmented into different pieces that could move with respect to each other."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026
The birds themselves swooped and cried, weaving in and out of immense, curved ridges that could only be spines, segmented and spurred, and, unmistakably: giant hands, giant feet.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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At the Landings Golf & Athletic Club in Savannah, Ga., executive director Steven Freund credits a strategy of segmenting programming to fit every age, even if it means ruffling a few feathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Donets recommends segmenting your customer base as granularly as possible so that you can precisely tailor your messaging and offerings.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Surveys indicate that people tend to prefer segmenting their professional and personal lives instead of integrating them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Once you get really good at segmenting people or giving them the right recommendations, you have to have a different way to follow up with every single person.
From The Verge ● Feb. 1, 2022
Blastoderm, blas′to-derm, n. an embryological term applied to the layer or layers of cells arising from the germinal disc, or the portion of a partially segmenting egg which undergoes division.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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