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CFO Kevan Parekh said higher memory and storage costs hit Apple in the quarter as expected, but the company was able to offset the impact somewhat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said spending will top $50 billion in the current quarter, on the way to $170 billion for calendar 2027.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
But in August, it reported sales had returned to growth for the current quarter for the first time in two years.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Pfizer boosts full-year guidance on the back of its latest quarter, citing growth in non-Covid offerings and acquired products.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
She shrieked and ranted for a quarter of an hour, then deprived us of our noontime break in the open air that day.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The good news is that Figure 1 also shows that the rate of delinquencies leveled off in the first two quarters of 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Over the past two quarters, the company has seen customers scale up from pilot engagements to larger deals, Taylor said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix last week reported record earnings for consecutive quarters, benefiting from tight supply and robust demand for memory chips and other hardware used in AI computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The post-earnings plunges are reinforcing fears that the best quarters, particularly for AI-linked companies, are in the rear-view mirror.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
He sprinted down the length of the ship, hurtling below deck to the captain’s quarters.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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Expressing affection for a specific film in a public forum is grounds to be drawn and quartered in the social media town square.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
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
Their Frigidaire was always stocked with newly acquired pieces of ham, half roasts and quartered chickens.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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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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