segment
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Missing from that framing was the question that should have governed the segment: Who actually sent the material?
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
“She hit my Achilles’ heel,” Schreiber explained later in his late-night segment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
Now the company expects $5.15 billion to $5.17 billion in revenue for this segment, whereas its prior outlook called for $5.18 billion to $5.22 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
In the late 1950s, White learned that Hollywood was about to shoot a movie, The FBI Story, starring James Stewart as a crime-busting agent, that would feature a segment on the murders of the Osage.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Sales at the U.K. drugmaker’s oncology, rare disease, vaccines, and respiratory and immunology segments were all ahead of expectations, according to JPM.
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
On Friday morning there were two more camera crews at the McCulloughs’ door, and three segments that evening, on Channels 5, 19, and 43.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Reaching Gen Z means shifting toward more segmented channels like Instagram and TikTok, a move the company says it is now making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
“By spinning off the associations, the banks segmented that risk and protected themselves from it,” McPherson said.
From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026
One fossil revealed a segmented cartilaginous sternum, along with sternal ribs, intermediate ribs, and connections linking the ribcage to the shoulder girdle.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
He saw a lot of insects, spiders, and shiny, segmented beetles, going in and out of the twigs.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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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
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
Lawyers for the police said the officers were strictly following their training in a technique known as segmenting.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
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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