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quarterly

[kwawr-ter-lee] / ˈkwɔr tər li /
ADVERB
by quarters
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They could offer to repurchase shares from shareholders monthly rather than quarterly.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Analysts had forecast Givaudan’s quarterly sales at 1.99 billion francs and like-for-like growth at 4.7%, according to consensus estimates compiled by the company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Big banks will kick off quarterly earnings on Tuesday, even though the stock market will operate with normal hours on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

While revenue has fallen consistently on a quarterly basis, its year-over-year sales decline improved to an 8% dip in the second quarter of this year from 20% in the final quarter of 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

This wasn’t all that different from what he’d been saying in his quarterly letters to his investors for the past two years.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

His demanding prose style was forged in an era when small-circulation quarterlies still had some cachet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

Robert Hughes, in Time, called Katz the Norman Rockwell of the intelligentsia, which was odd—the art-world intellectuals who wrote for October and the academic quarterlies consistently ignored him.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018

As for what it all means, I suppose we’ll have to wait for the foreign policy thinktanks and cryogenics quarterlies to report.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016

“I sent my stuff out to the quarterlies and it came back with arrogant notes,” she added.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2014

I would send my poems out, to literary quarterlies or magazines, and wait for their return.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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