segment
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But for a certain segment of cruise enthusiasts, she’s about as big as it gets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The CCC segment of the market is signaling “things are starting to get bad,” Miskin said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
By the time the team arrived at the site a good portion of the debris had fragmented and washed away, leaving only a single Y-shaped segment, the university said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The deal marks Unilever’s latest effort to clean up its sprawling portfolio of businesses after agreeing earlier this year to merge its food segment with spice giant McCormick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
In a segment of the interview that wasn’t included in the version edited for broadcast, ABC News anchor Forrest Sawyer asked Beck, “How’d you feel about a reporter being along?”
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Everyone in the auto industry already knew this and wondered why Tesla was killing off lucrative luxury models and not moving into potentially more profitable segments, such as larger SUVs and normal-looking pickups.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Erin Keating, Executive Analyst, Cox Automotive, says, “Affordability pressures are pushing more buyers toward lower-priced vehicles and segments, which tempers the industrywide number even as prices for individual vehicles rise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
China’s exports of rare earths, power equipment, printed circuit boards, optical transceiver and mature-node semiconductors represent over 50% of global market share in their respective segments, GS says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Most of the exposure for the broadcast networks on the Emmys in recent years has come through tributes to classic shows and the “In Memoriam” segments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The once sleek lines were now a jagged mess of missing hull segments and empty anchor points where noncritical components used to be.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Many still possessed segmented limbs along the abdomen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
“By spinning off the associations, the banks segmented that risk and protected themselves from it,” McPherson said.
From MarketWatch ● May 25, 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
The 2025 SDR recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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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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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