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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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Adam Parker and his team at Trivariate Research looked at thousands of sharp drawdowns over a quarter century to glean clues about when quickly dropping stocks tend to keep falling.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

McPeake thinks about a quarter of the company’s debt will become convertible after the offering.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

In the quarter that ended June 30, sales increased 4.3%, with the U.S. up more than 13%, compared with a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Its agreement with Warner included a “ticking fee” with payments to Warner shareholders of roughly $650 million a quarter, or $7 million a day, beginning next month, until the transaction closes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Nancy took the quarter and walked over to a goat and sheep food machine.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

When asked at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference about headcount being down for several quarters, Santomassimo says there is more room to use AI to drive efficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Mater Dei’s run game was shut down, gaining less than 100 yards, and it looked like the Monarchs would be stifled for the entire four quarters.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

However, the Springboks' brute strength in the close quarters meant they could collect points without needing to resort to such high-risk passages of play.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

America’s office market has seen four straight quarters of occupancy gains, JLL Research said, noting that “cities and office buildings are active again and commuting activity continues to increase.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

“They run up the starboard side of the ship, up two decks, through the stokers’ quarters, and into their dining hall.

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 British army quartered itself in the colonists' meager homes, slept in their beds, burned their firewood, ate their scarce food, and confiscated their guns so they couldn't form a militia to fight back.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2023

There were thousands of British troops quartered in New York, and British sailors, too, besides the regular population of 25,000.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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

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

A team of volunteer cooks is preparing lunch for 200 senior citizens, cutting cornbread, tossing spinach salad, quartering oranges.

From Seattle Times Jul. 15, 2022

Waves were quartering across the racecourse now, constantly threatening to throw the boats off keel.

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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