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DuPont DD 3.12%increase; up pointing triangle de Nemours reported a higher profit in the second quarter as sales rose across the chemicals and materials company’s segments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
For the current quarter, the company forecast that monthly active users would grow to 788 million, adding about 11 million, while premium subscribers would increase to 305 million, adding roughly five million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Liquidity risk has reduced after the quarter, but the balance sheet remains sensitive to met coal prices, operational disruption and working-capital absorption,” says Shaw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Spotify added seven million premium subscribers in the second quarter, bringing its total to 300 million and beating the company’s prior guidance by one million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tucking the quarter into her pocket, Nancy went over to join Bess and George.
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
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She had mostly low-paying jobs and did not work for many years, although she did earn 40 quarters to qualify for Social Security.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Amazon’s cloud business recorded $42.2 billion in revenue, beating analyst expectations, and reflecting growth of 36.7% from the prior-year quarter — its fastest growth in 18 quarters.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The company reported 37% revenue growth in Amazon Web Services, the fastest growth rate in 18 quarters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
That figure raised the spectre of a technical recession -- when there are two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The move to permanent quarters came the second week in October.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
Unlike the area where I’m quartered, there seems to be no one around to ask.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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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
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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