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segment

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


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It said China had been the key driver, its sales there advancing nearly three times faster than the overall market, with the luxury segment also growing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Even though the news segment never aired in the U.S.,

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

IBM’s software segment saw revenue grew 8% to $7.8 billion, also ahead of analyst expectations of $7.66 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

You’re good at getting your fans to open up to you onstage — whether it’s a match-making segment or just bringing them up to talk about their lives in front of thousands of strangers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The wind tore a forty-square-foot segment from the dome of the Machinery Building and lifted the roof off the fair’s Hungarian Café.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

But while some segments are flexible - especially in the Sunday result show - their main roles appear fixed.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The increase was driven by growth in each of the company’s business segments: aeronautics, missiles and fire control, space, and rotary and mission systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The company on Thursday announced better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, once again benefiting from higher activity levels across all of its segments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Goldman Sachs discovered a U-shaped phenomenon among segments of household income.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Mullen examined the tapes and excerpted all references to the candidates, until he had 37 separate segments, each roughly two and a half seconds long.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

The 2025 SDR, external recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

One fossil revealed a segmented cartilaginous sternum, along with sternal ribs, intermediate ribs, and connections linking the ribcage to the shoulder girdle.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 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

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

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

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

It aims to preserve user privacy by segmenting its audience into larger groups.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 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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