segment

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This is particularly likely in the container segment, where trans-shipment via Dubai’s Jebel Ali port has proven popular in recent years and driven rapid growth in shipping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The company’s DTC segment now represents around half of its business overall.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

It was as distasteful a segment as you’d expect from “Update,” yet also somehow straddled the line between wallowing in the scandal and mining some genuine laughs out of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

“I can only do this”—he makes a swiping gesture with his hands—“so many times with so many things,” Sax says in a TV segment.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

The subprime market tapped a segment of the American public that did not typically have anything to do with Wall Street: the tranche between the fifth and the twenty-ninth percentile in their credit ratings.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis