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segment

[seg-muhnt, seg-ment, seg-ment] / ˈsɛg mənt, ˈsɛg mɛnt, sɛgˈmɛnt /


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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

In the company’s international geography segment, organic revenue grew 6.9% for the quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The armchairs around the low tables are upholstered in different prints, as are the heavy draperies at the windows and each wall segment surrounding the diners.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

General Dynamics grew revenue across all four of its business segments, led by marine systems, its largest and fastest growing business, with revenue up 21% to $4.96 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

What happens when we try really small segments, measuring in bits a millionth of an inch each?

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Software that can’t operate in a segmented network will soon be unfit for federal use, and agencies are writing this requirement into future contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

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

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

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

Surveys indicate that people tend to prefer segmenting their professional and personal lives instead of integrating them.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

Later that day in John’s class, students broke into small groups to practice writing and segmenting words into different sounds.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 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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