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Despite Apple’s late entry into the market, Counterpoint projects the company will sell up to six million foldable iPhones this year and take a quarter of the global foldables market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Gauges of factory activity in Asia continued to signal expansion at the end of third quarter, as the artificial-intelligence boom offsets cost pressures and supply disruptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Other long-term Treasurys yields also surged in the third quarter, weighing on the U.S. bond market as it broadly booked a quarterly loss.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Treasury market wrapped up its worst quarter in years, the Bloomberg U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
She scurried after a crab the size of a quarter, which disappeared into its burrow before Harriet could reach it.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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Lee expects the company’s further shareholder returns and a likely earnings rebound in the coming quarters to serve as catalysts for its share price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Micron stock has had some eye-watering moves after earnings in previous quarters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
They have, however, enjoyed other memorable European Championships - having reached the 2004 semi-finals and the quarters in 2012 and 2021.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
For three quarters, Allen looked nothing like the devastating double-threat quarterback who tore through the first two games, wins over Houston and Detroit in which Buffalo scored a combined 77 points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
We are nowhere near any of the Collective’s living quarters, so I’m wondering exactly where he could have seen the book.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
Mother made a disapproving tsk sound with her teeth, then quartered a potato.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
I drove into a wind quartering in from my starboard bow and felt the buffeting, sometimes staggering blows of the gale I helped to make.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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