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The CS-4 is now in early access and will be generally available later in the third quarter, management said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
A quarter of the time, Schlittler unleashes his cutter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Toll Brothers TOL -1.78%decrease; down pointing triangle logged lower sales in the third quarter as it delivered fewer homes but at higher prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
‘Nobody wants to sign a 30-year commitment when they’re worried about the next quarter.’
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
By the time I’d set up a bill-paying system and gotten everything entered and paid, Auntie Buzz had turned a nice profit in the past quarter.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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This is because meteorologists split the year into four even quarters, each made up of three months, for ease of record keeping and statistical analysis.
From BBC ● 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
The brand has grown by 10% or more for seven quarters in a row, in an otherwise stagnant luxury market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
We found quarters in her coat pocket, a dollar in an old purse, and pennies in the tray in the living room.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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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 old-fashioned quartered blooms open violet-pink with a copper center that gradually fades to cream.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Like sailors quartered on a battleship, they found privacy, space, and quiet hard to come by.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
With serious face and a high-held, final flick he split each side in half, quartering the pig.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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