segment
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The segment was funny, not to mention deservedly embarrassing.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Noah Kahan then performed Bridge Over Troubled Water during the in memoriam segment, before Jamie Lee Curtis paid an emotional tribute to actor and director Rob Reiner.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Los Angeles Rams made up the third segment in the program, which typically includes sports stories when CBS has a late afternoon football game leading into prime time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Patrece M. Lucas, a mental health counselor in Detroit, watched Coxon’s interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday and texted a link to the segment to her group chats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The news segment ended with a shot of the McCulloughs standing over Mirabelle’s crib as she cooed at her mobile.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Both segments felt more effortful than funny, but not unfunny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The other two segments on the “60 Minutes” premiere, — which could include a significant newsmaker interview, — will be announced sometime next week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Microsoft will now report using two segments: One will be named Agents and Infra, and the other will be called Devices and Consumer.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
HPE lifted its long-term growth targets after revenue gains across both of its segments drove a more than fivefold increase in its profit during the third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
I cut four more segments of the buoyant rope and tied the lifebuoy to each side of the square.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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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
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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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
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
The researchers investigated the drug’s effect on numerous subgroups within their sample population, segmenting it by age, heart or lung condition, gender, smoking status or time since symptom onset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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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