quarter
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EPS estimates for the forward, or third, quarter were recently up 0.89%, down from the 1.16% increase in forward estimates following first-quarter reporting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Wegovy pill, which launched earlier this year in the U.S., logged sales of around $500 million in the second quarter, up from around $350 million in the first quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The American chain said it received a $994 million pre-tax reimbursement, which resulted in its second quarter operating income doubling to $2.6bn from $1.3bn last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Issuers sold nearly than $90 billion in convertible bonds in the second quarter, the strongest on record.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
And by the next autumn, a quarter of the riverside blue willows had hummingbear nests in them.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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Another source of strain: In peacetime, the ports were used for rest and recuperation by sailors seeking a break from an aircraft carrier’s crammed quarters and exhausting routines.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
When it comes to interest rates, almost three quarters of investors do not think that Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh will raise interest rates before the U.S. midterm elections in November.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
While working his way back home, he’s forced to outsmart a vicious beast at close quarters, and he takes up residence with a suitor.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
S&P 500 companies reported $2.64 trillion of combined net income over the last four quarters, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She knew it was long past time for her to take the children inside to settle in their new, temporary quarters, to have supper and a bath and a bedtime read-aloud.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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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
The dried apricots and figs should be quartered, and the apple diced to a similar size.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024
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
The Huskies were trending toward a possible shutout, leading 37-0 going into the fourth quartering.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2020
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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