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segment

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


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That was somewhat anemic compared with J&J’s pharmaceutical segment, where sales rose 7.7% and beat Wall Street estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Stoke Space, a startup working on a reusable rocket called Nova, raised $1 billion in September — making it the second-largest deal in the space-infrastructure segment tracked by Space Capital.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Banks don’t report their segment results in a uniform manner, so here is a look at consensus estimates for third-quarter noninterest income among analysts polled by FactSet, with expected sequential and year-over-year changes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

“We are not ignoring a very important segment of the audience, which is the Latino population who have always, in my experience, shown an interest in creators from Mexico or from Latin America,” Macias says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

One embryonic segment becomes the second section of the thorax and grows two wings.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

U.S. sales rose 9.1% in the third quarter, driving the majority of growth across J&J’s pharmaceutical and medical-device segments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Most of the exposure for the broadcast networks on the Emmys in recent years has come through tributes to classic shows and the “In Memoriam” segments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The resulting structure is known as boudinage, a geological process in which a relatively strong layer or body of rock is pulled into separate segments as the surrounding material deforms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The page also posted a grid of Sun's "splits" - which are the times taken to complete different 5km segments of the race.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The segments of road down there among the dead trees.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

These systems demonstrate what segmented detectors can accomplish, but they also reveal a growing problem.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 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

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 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

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

Donets recommends segmenting your customer base as granularly as possible so that you can precisely tailor your messaging and offerings.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

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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