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
Revenue at the global banking and investor solutions segment rose 12.5% during the quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
“She hit my Achilles’ heel,” Schreiber explained later in his late-night segment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
One line segment contains 11 of those pieces; the other contains 13.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
They were cut into long, thin segments by the dark hair that always sat like a shield in front of my right eye.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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It also had a segmented trunk and six walking legs, the basic body organization associated with insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Professional investors have long segmented the market by how large and how fast-growing stocks are, although the definitions of “large,” “small,” “growth” and “value” are all over the map.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Public transit there feels more segmented, so traveling to Oakland can take a long time, and getting to outdoor or hiking destinations isn’t really feasible without a car.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
The 2025 SDR recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
Surveys indicate that people tend to prefer segmenting their professional and personal lives instead of integrating them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
The researchers investigated the drug’s effect on numerous subgroups within their sample population, segmenting it by age, heart or lung condition, gender, smoking status or time since symptom onset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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
The study of the cleavage pattern of the segmenting egg furnishes the most convincing evidence that a different explanation from the one stated in the biogenetic law is the more probable explanation.
From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan
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