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The iPhone maker said it expected slower December-quarter sales growth in its services segment — albeit compared with record levels in the prior 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
Gross margins for the September quarter ended up at 12.8%, better than management’s earlier prediction and beating the 11% expected by analysts.
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
She shrieked and ranted for a quarter of an hour, then deprived us of our noontime break in the open air that day.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
If that happens, building costs could begin to pull underlying inflation lower in the coming quarters, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
He’s 0-3 in playoff games, and really only played one good half in those postseason appearances, the first two quarters in Jacksonville almost five years ago, before the Chargers blew a 27-0 lead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Moody said he expected wage growth to pick up in coming quarters as labor productivity growth has been strong even before AI investment is factored into the equation.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Our family would stay in the living quarters atop their garage, and Jimmie and I would cook for Mr. and Mrs. Belcher, serve their meals, and drive them around town.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
The British army quartered itself in the colonists' meager homes, slept in their beds, burned their firewood, ate their scarce food, and confiscated their guns so they couldn't form a militia to fight back.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2023
The quartered carcass of an ox filled the wagon bed, along with two dead sheep.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
I filmed a video as they pulled the cheese apart, a quartering as messy as one in a medieval village square.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 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
She picked a few stray peelings off of her apron and began quartering the potatoes.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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