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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
Synonyms


VERB
divide into four equal parts
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He also said the company beat Wall Street’s expectations for growth of current remaining performance obligations and subscription revenue during the second quarter.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

The company expects revenue to decline by a low- to mid-single-digit percentage on a like-for-like basis in the current first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The American chain said it received a $994 million pre-tax reimbursement, which resulted in its second quarter operating income doubling to $2.6bn from $1.3bn last year.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Issuers sold nearly than $90 billion in convertible bonds in the second quarter, the strongest on record.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

So can you help me understand why your VaR didn’t increase in the quarter dramatically?

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The sum total of its response to the 2023 threat was to provide some common-sense IT advice, which promptly went unfollowed in many quarters.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

This is because meteorologists split the year into four even quarters, each made up of three months, for ease of record keeping and statistical analysis.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

However, the bank believes that a recent acceleration in enterprise AI spending suggests that the earnings impact of AI adoption should become clearer in coming quarters.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

While working his way back home, he’s forced to outsmart a vicious beast at close quarters, and he takes up residence with a suitor.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

The lower three quarters of the windows had been papered over, so the restaurant was dim and cool.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

Around midnight on April 18, 1775, Revere was ordered to ride to Lexington, Mass., and warn the townspeople that British soldiers, who were quartered in Boston, were ready to head their way.

From Salon Sep. 4, 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

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

The Huskies were trending toward a possible shutout, leading 37-0 going into the fourth quartering.

From Seattle Times Nov. 21, 2020

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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