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sector

[sek-ter] / ˈsɛk tər /


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The private sector could move faster by treating precise time as essential service that needs protection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026

All this has helped fuel extraordinary growth across the sector.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2026

Continental, which has been struggling amid a crisis in the wider European auto sector, has been slimming down its operations to focus on its traditional tyre business.

From Barron's • Jul. 4, 2026

It also found a higher rate of insurance claims in the San Francisco Bay Area compared with the rest of California, and that job loss claims were concentrated in the technology sector.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2026

Just as the astrolabe embodies the medieval application of mathematics to the heavens, the sector embodies the new technical skills of the mathematician applying himself to the world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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