segment
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Amazon also could offset pressure on the advertising segment through other areas of the business, he reasoned, noting that any pressure would likely amount to a small fraction of overall revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sales across Conagra’s grocery and snacks segment decreased 2.6%, as lower sales volumes more than offset higher prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Something like a million people vote in this event every year, according to the daytime news segment that I caught at the dentist the other afternoon while getting a tooth cleaning.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Walt Disney Co. reported a 6% bump in revenue and 21% boost in segment operating income during its fiscal third quarter earnings call on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Each segment was supposed to be no longer than five minutes, and Dimple and Rishi didn’t come on till the middle, so they probably had close to two hours of waiting left.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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CEO Ramon Laguarta said the performance of the company’s snacks and beverages segments fell due to “consumer budgets tightening due to rising inflationary pressures.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
However, the larger scale and stronger cash generation of Xiaomi’s internet of things and internet services segments, compared with previous smartphone downturns, should provide a buffer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The dimensions of both the swellings and their narrow connecting segments mattered.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Both segments felt more effortful than funny, but not unfunny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The time-honored solution is to create an outline, which is just a tree lying on its side, its branches marked by indentations, dashes, bullets, or Roman and Arabic numerals, rather than by forking line segments.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Segments 1 through 9 carried segmented appendages, and the rear abdominal limbs had been modified into paddle-like structures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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
The 2025 SDR recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
He saw a lot of insects, spiders, and shiny, segmented beetles, going in and out of the twigs.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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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
Surveys indicate that people tend to prefer segmenting their professional and personal lives instead of integrating them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
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
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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