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segment

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


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The following year, he appeared on a segment of ABC’s dramedy series “Life Goes On” and played a character with HIV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Wilkinson noted that the program — which was given the exemption in 2002 — has avoided using clips of politicians during its popular “Hot Topics” segment at the top of the program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

MediaTek faces several competitors in the premium smartphone chip segment, including Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and Huawei’s HiSilicon, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But sales in Conagra’s refrigerated and frozen segment fell 2.1% during its first quarter, which ran through August, the company said Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 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

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

Vysotsky said Ukrainians "understand the sensitivity of certain segments for European farmers" and were open to "substantive discussions about adaptation periods, the scale of market access and safeguard mechanisms".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

That means both fault segments are carrying unusually high and relatively similar levels of stress.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Lately, tech and megacap growth stocks are doing “the heavy lifting,” as investors rotate into those segments rather than exiting equities altogether, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

About ten hours after fertilization of the egg, the embryo divides into three broad segments, head, thorax, and abdomen, and each segment divides into further subcompartments.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

It also had a segmented trunk and six walking legs, the basic body organization associated with insects.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

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

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

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

Lawyers for the police said the officers were strictly following their training in a technique known as segmenting.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

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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