segment
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Declines in commodity turkey and private-label snack nuts contributed to a 4% decline in Hormel’s retail segment sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
In fact, renter households with incomes over $100,000 have been the fastest-growing segment of renters over the past decade, according to the Aspen Institute, including a growing class of millionaire renters.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
When television journalist Barbara Walters grilled Parton about her looks in a 1977 segment - asking if the singer was a joke - the interviewer arguably met her match.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The authority is currently focused on completing an initial segment through Central Valley, then connecting it to San Francisco and Los Angeles later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Basmu serpent thrashed desperately as more and more golden threads wove over its body, locking it down segment by segment.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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"If our recent advertisement has inadvertently hurt the sentiments of some segments of society, that was not our intent at all. Out of respect, we have withdrawn the advertisement from all media," it added.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Subramanian noted record underweight positions in financials among actively managed funds and light exposure across other value segments.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The data agency’s survey for June showed sales were up broadly, rising in seven of the nine industry segments it tracks, led by general merchandise stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Thomson Reuters bumped up its revenue targets for the year after logging double-digit growth across its three big business segments in the latest quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The forest had been hacked away in patches surrounding a few missing segments of rail, but it held the rest firmly in its grasp.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Segments 1 through 9 carried segmented appendages, and the rear abdominal limbs had been modified into paddle-like structures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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
It is the latest example of Apple deploying a decades-old chip industry strategy to squeeze profits from lesser-performing processors by selling them like eggs, gas, diamonds or hotel rooms, segmented by good, better and best.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 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
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
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
It aims to preserve user privacy by segmenting its audience into larger groups.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 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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