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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
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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
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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
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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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