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 embryonic segment becomes the second section of the thorax and grows two wings.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Sales at the U.K. drugmaker’s oncology, rare disease, vaccines, and respiratory and immunology segments were all ahead of expectations, according to JPM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
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
With a half-inch yardstick we can divide the foot-long side of the square into 24 segments, each half an inch long.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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It had large eyes extending from stalks at the front of its body, along with a segmented skeleton and jointed limbs attached beneath its narrow frame.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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
I nodded toward a dark sprawling building farther down the path, its walls glistening with arch after arch of segmented windows.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
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
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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