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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
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VERB
divide into four equal parts
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The company saw profits soar 557% in the latest quarter, and analysts model 484% growth for the full year.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Mexico bought 26% of exports from Kansas and Nebraska each in the first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Last year, nearly a quarter of maths and English GCSEs were taken by people aged 17 and older.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Issuers sold nearly than $90 billion in convertible bonds in the second quarter, the strongest on record.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

It’s a sharp contrast that, by the end of the 1930s, somewhere between a quarter and a third of all pilots in the Soviet Union were women.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The sum total of its response to the 2023 threat was to provide some common-sense IT advice, which promptly went unfollowed in many quarters.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

However, the bank believes that a recent acceleration in enterprise AI spending suggests that the earnings impact of AI adoption should become clearer in coming quarters.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

While working his way back home, he’s forced to outsmart a vicious beast at close quarters, and he takes up residence with a suitor.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

S&P 500 companies reported $2.64 trillion of combined net income over the last four quarters, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

She dug in her purse and brought out four quarters, which she slipped into his hand.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Expressing affection for a specific film in a public forum is grounds to be drawn and quartered in the social media town square.

From Salon Mar. 11, 2026

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

She did not gown herself as a lady, but chose a knight's finery instead, a velvet doublet quartered rose-and-azure, breeches and boots and a fine-tooled swordbelt, her new rainbow cloak flowing down her back.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

She picked a few stray peelings off of her apron and began quartering the potatoes.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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