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segment

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


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In the fiscal first quarter, delivered sales were up 10% in the retail segment, but that was more than offset by a decline in wholesale delivered sales, which suffered from choppy order patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Revenue from internet services edged 0.6% lower to 9.0 billion yuan, though segment gross margin rose to 76.8% from 75.4%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Klein also pointed to a report saying OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told investors that the company’s enterprise business now makes up more of its revenue than its consumer segment.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Winfrey won the case in 1998, and was so impressed by McGraw that she invited him onto her show and he subsequently landed a weekly segment.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Most malignancies develop so slowly that they may require a considerable segment of the victim’s life to reach the stage of showing clinical symptoms.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

However, asset quality could improve further as lending shifts away from higher-risk segments toward safer retail and auto loans, he reckons.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Straddling different segments of the gas sector often enables companies to reduce costs and capture a larger share of profits realized at different stages of the fuel supply chain, the analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

“The risk longer-term for peers is that Apollo transforms easyJet into a more competitive airline in terms of product, cost base and in particular segments like corporate traffic or package holidays,” they add.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Thomson Reuters TRI 11.34%increase; green up pointing triangle bumped up its revenue targets for the year after logging double-digit growth across its three big business segments in the latest quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

I look up at the enormous holograms in the stadium that are replaying segments of the game, only to see myself, ignoring the others and sabotaging their moves.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Professional investors have long segmented the market by how large and how fast-growing stocks are, although the definitions of “large,” “small,” “growth” and “value” are all over the map.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 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

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

From BBC Apr. 14, 2026

Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.

From MarketWatch Mar. 21, 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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