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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
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VERB
divide into four equal parts
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However, the company’s pace of growth actually slowed on a sequential basis, with sales up 47% compared with the second quarter of 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

The company’s projection includes between $19.5 billion and $21.5 billion of revenue during the fiscal second quarter, above analyst expectations for $18.11 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Revenue had risen 144% from the first quarter to the second quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Booking Holdings reported lower profit and sales in the third quarter as global travel demand slowed due to persistent geopolitical tensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

There was a lake about a quarter of a mile behind their house.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The good news is that Figure 1 also shows that the rate of delinquencies leveled off in the first two quarters of 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

The company’s shares fell as new CEO John Ternus warned that margins may weaken in future quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Over the past two quarters, the company has seen customers scale up from pilot engagements to larger deals, Taylor said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

There are four quarters, with each lasting 12 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

I watched, horrified, as she tore it into quarters, then eighths.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Expressing affection for a specific film in a public forum is grounds to be drawn and quartered in the social media town square.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

Frightful sat beside me as I skinned and quartered it.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

A team of volunteer cooks is preparing lunch for 200 senior citizens, cutting cornbread, tossing spinach salad, quartering oranges.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

With serious face and a high-held, final flick he split each side in half, quartering the pig.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston


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