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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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Overall, the data pointed to a softer quarter for retail spending, with sales in July and August averaging around 0.3% below 2Q, Pantheon Macroeconomics economist Claus Vistesen said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Surveying the fourth quarter, Pasquariello still identifies a “core bullish framework” and he regards technicals — like sentiment, positioning and seasonals — as supportive.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Analysis by commercial property firm CBRE, external found that while the vacancy rate across UK shopping centres in the second quarter of this year was 16%, it was "significantly lower" at major centres.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Lakers forced four steals in the first quarter and 15 for the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

These two pieces were the only wooden furniture in the hut—the supply boxes in Rupa’s quarter were made of cardboard.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

Overall, he sees the company’s free cash flow reaching more than $333 billion over the next eight quarters, which he said would amount to about 30% of its total outstanding shares.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

This year, nothing is working well — although the defense did turn in a gem for three quarters in the Week 3 loss at Buffalo, including five takeaways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

IPOs in the third quarter as of a report dated Sept. 24, putting this quarter on track to be among the slowest third quarters since 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

He remembered what Mr. Andrews had told him: The ladders are in the stokers’ quarters, and they run up three decks.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis

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

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

The wind, however, was gusting erratically out of the west, quartering across the racecourse at roughly a forty-five-degree angle, pushing in bursts and fits at the starboard side of the shell.

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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