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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 ChatGPT-maker’s revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the third 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
What I find is porridge and kasha for a quarter of our money.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
The brand has grown by 10% or more for seven quarters in a row, in an otherwise stagnant luxury market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
He was right: After Regina had visited him once, she wrote to him about his cramped quarters: “You can hardly turn around.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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 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
His steel was a deep cobalt, even the blunt momingstar he wielded with such deadly effect, his mount barded in the quartered sun-and-moon heraldry of House Tarth.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
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
With serious face and a high-held, final flick he split each side in half, quartering the pig.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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