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In the second quarter of 2026, Alphabet’s capital expenditures jumped to $44.9 billion from $22.5 billion a year ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Analysts polled by Visible Alpha had forecast sales of 7.83 billion euros in the second quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In Los Angeles County, it’s estimated that more than a quarter of residents receive CalFresh benefits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Microsoft is expected to report free cash flow of $17.4 billion this quarter, down from $25.6 billion last year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
They spent the first quarter hour of their walk gloating.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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As for Nike, its recovery might not show on the top line for a couple of quarters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Right-sizing the lifestyle business has been cutting deep into its revenue, and Wall Street expects another two quarters of constant-currency sales declines, according to Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Param Singh and Jake Heimowitz, analysts at Oppenheimer, said they see it taking several quarters before IBM can recover to constant currency upward of 5%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
After the war began it stepped up shipments via pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, which has allowed it export some three quarters of its pre-war level.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Emergency Services, and ended with their arrival at the Rossi Brothers’ winter quarters.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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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
I don't love thinly sliced mushrooms; since there's less surface area there, they don't take to heat as well as thickly-sliced mushrooms or quartered mushrooms.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
A draught of cooks, from every inn and eating-house for miles around, arrived to supplement the dwarves and other odd folk that were quartered at Bag End.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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
And I like quartering and searing them, which yields a similar size and crust as the beef.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2019
Roger Morris and Gordy Adam, up front, struggled to keep the bow of the boat pointed due north under the relentless push of the quartering waves.
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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