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segment

[seg-muhnt, seg-ment, seg-ment] / ˈsɛg mənt, ˈsɛg mɛnt, sɛgˈmɛnt /


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From his home, he’ll do a segment with Monday for the pregame show.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

When Reddit reported quarterly results last month, sales and earnings per share topped Wall Street’s estimates, helped by its advertising segment.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Winfrey won the case in 1998, and was so impressed by McGraw that she invited him onto her show and he subsequently landed a weekly segment.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The smart consumer electronics segment encompassing smartphones contributed about one-third of the top line.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The peculiar feature of the mutants, he discovered, was that the essential plan of macroscopic structures was often maintained—only the segment switched its position or identity in the body of the fly.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

However, non-electronics segments such as petrochemicals are expected to be weighed by supply disruptions from the conflict in the Middle East, Cheok added.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

“The risk longer-term for peers is that Apollo transforms easyJet into a more competitive airline in terms of product, cost base and in particular segments like corporate traffic or package holidays,” they add.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The industry remains focused on low-margin products such as T-shirts and jeans, while rivals have moved into higher-value segments made with synthetic fibre.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Thomson Reuters bumped up its revenue targets for the year after logging double-digit growth across its three big business segments in the latest quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

“What’s this thing that’s on yore mind?” he asked, settling back comfortably against the tree trunk and looking up at small segments of sky that appeared here and there through the canopy of green leaves.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

These systems demonstrate what segmented detectors can accomplish, but they also reveal a growing problem.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

The 2025 SDR, external recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

It is the latest example of Apple deploying a decades-old chip industry strategy to squeeze profits from lesser-performing processors by selling them like eggs, gas, diamonds or hotel rooms, segmented by good, better and best.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.

From MarketWatch Mar. 21, 2026

The birds themselves swooped and cried, weaving in and out of immense, curved ridges that could only be spines, segmented and spurred, and, unmistakably: giant hands, giant feet.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The rise of Geese reflects Gen Z’s broad interest in music from decades-past, which they have unfettered access to thanks to streaming, and a distaste for segmenting sounds into genres, industry observers say.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

Donets recommends segmenting your customer base as granularly as possible so that you can precisely tailor your messaging and offerings.

From Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2023

Once you get really good at segmenting people or giving them the right recommendations, you have to have a different way to follow up with every single person.

From The Verge Feb. 1, 2022

The report, over 300 pages long, did not indicate that anyone questioned the segmenting maneuver performed that morning.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2020

Blastoderm, blas′to-derm, n. an embryological term applied to the layer or layers of cells arising from the germinal disc, or the portion of a partially segmenting egg which undergoes division.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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