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
Intel’s PC weakness “more than” offsets the strength it is showing in its data-center and AI segment, Arya wrote in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Revenue from the mobility and international retail banking operations segment dropped 4%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
He pulled off a segment and sighed with pleasure.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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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
In its 2020 filing, for example, Airbnb organized its $3.4 trillion addressable market into three distinct segments: short-term stays, long-term stays and experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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
Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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Professional investors have long segmented the market by how large and how fast-growing stocks are, although the definitions of “large,” “small,” “growth” and “value” are all over the map.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It had large eyes extending from stalks at the front of its body, along with a segmented skeleton and jointed limbs attached beneath its narrow frame.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The 2025 SDR recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.
From MarketWatch ● 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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The rise of Geese reflects Gen Z’s broad interest in music from decades-past, which they have unfettered access to thanks to streaming, and a distaste for segmenting sounds into genres, industry observers say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Surveys indicate that people tend to prefer segmenting their professional and personal lives instead of integrating them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Later that day in John’s class, students broke into small groups to practice writing and segmenting words into different sounds.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 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
The study of the cleavage pattern of the segmenting egg furnishes the most convincing evidence that a different explanation from the one stated in the biogenetic law is the more probable explanation.
From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan
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