segment
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It did see a big 17% operating-profit drop in its sports segment, due to early-round sweeps in the NBA playoffs and a network-carriage dispute.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
For the third quarter of 2026, Thomson Reuters said it expects organic revenue growth to be about 8% and its adjusted Ebitda margin to be about 36%, including results from its global print segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
After a roughly 15-minute drive through mild traffic, we made it to the venue just in time to see Epps tease a few audience members during his opening comedy segment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Increased volumes were boosted by 6% growth in the group’s premium segment, including its namesake brand, as well as by 12% growth in the low-to-no-alcohol category, a key focus for the brewer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
In some mutants, whole segments of the embryo disappeared, or the thorax or abdominal compartments were drastically shortened—analogous to a human fetus born with no middle or with no hind segment.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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They cite the Indonesian company’s geothermal and nickel mining-related impairments and weaker operating assumptions across segments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The industry remains focused on low-margin products such as T-shirts and jeans, while rivals have moved into higher-value segments made with synthetic fibre.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Kraft Heinz raised prices across its segments to offset higher input costs, primarily in coffee and ready-to-drink beverages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Core inflation away from the fast-moving segments that are impacted by energy have been very quiescent, and I think we are going to continue to see that,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The true level of poverty among North Carolina whites during the 1960s was extreme: nearly half of the manufacturing jobs in the state were in textiles, one of the lowest-paid segments of the industry.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
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
"Instead, it was segmented into different pieces that could move with respect to each other."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 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
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 report, over 300 pages long, did not indicate that anyone questioned the segmenting maneuver performed that morning.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
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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