segment
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The network aired a lengthy segment on the Thursday’s edition of “Today” to explain how its decision desk operates and comes up with its election night projections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Missing from that framing was the question that should have governed the segment: Who actually sent the material?
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Intel’s PC weakness “more than” offsets the strength it is showing in its data-center and AI segment, Arya wrote in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Revenue at the global banking and investor solutions segment rose 12.5% during the quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
This strategy worked to some extent for a segment of the African American community, particularly those who had access to education and relative privilege.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Ultimately, he believes the new administration will have to "build bridges to the segments that have been operating well in the past".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
"The board of directors commended the very good operational performance of all business segments which enabled the company to capture higher market prices," the company said in its earnings statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Bausch + Lomb benefited from broad-based growth across its segments, with 5% growth in revenue at its largest segment, Vision Care, which rose to $774 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
New research published in Science Advances suggests that their extraordinary evolutionary success was partly driven by mobile segments of DNA known as transposable elements, or "jumping genes."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Three of the segments grow the fly’s six legs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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“By spinning off the associations, the banks segmented that risk and protected themselves from it,” McPherson said.
From MarketWatch ● May 25, 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
One fossil revealed a segmented cartilaginous sternum, along with sternal ribs, intermediate ribs, and connections linking the ribcage to the shoulder girdle.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
The 2025 SDR recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
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At the Landings Golf & Athletic Club in Savannah, Ga., executive director Steven Freund credits a strategy of segmenting programming to fit every age, even if it means ruffling a few feathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
Lawyers for the police said the officers were strictly following their training in a technique known as segmenting.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
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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