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In the third quarter, GM sales fell 5.5 percent to 670,974 units, while Toyota sales rose 0.6 percent to 633,223 units.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Nearly a quarter had an unknown or unclassified religious affiliation.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was Santa Margarita’s junior quarterback who had the decisive play as Palmer found junior wide receiver Grant Van Raaphorst in the back of the end zone for a six-yard touchdown in the third quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Just over a quarter of their total transfer outlay was paid to clubs in the English top flight.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The bell weighs a quarter of a ton.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Investment by suppliers plunged from more than $8 billion in the first quarter of 2025 to around $600 million in the two subsequent quarters before recovering somewhat, according to CAR data.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Last Sunday, the defense played a gem of a game, and certainly through three quarters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
That is because those deals that are crossing the line are huge, with megadeals making up 35% of global volume over the first three quarters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Micron stock has had some eye-watering moves after earnings in previous quarters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Instead, he took the turnoff that led to the servants’ quarters behind the pool house.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
The British army quartered itself in the colonists' meager homes, slept in their beds, burned their firewood, ate their scarce food, and confiscated their guns so they couldn't form a militia to fight back.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2023
But aside from the latter privilege, and a garrison of Macedonian soldiers quartered in the city Cyrene was left pretty much to rule herself.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
I filmed a video as they pulled the cheese apart, a quartering as messy as one in a medieval village square.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025
For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025
Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
Waves were quartering across the racecourse now, constantly threatening to throw the boats off keel.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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