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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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