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segment

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


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Swiss food giant Nestlé said it would acquire startup yfood Labs in the ready-to-drink meal segment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Sales across McCormick’s consumer segment jumped 25%, primarily due to its acquisition of McCormick de Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Amazon also could offset pressure on the advertising segment through other areas of the business, he reasoned, noting that any pressure would likely amount to a small fraction of overall revenue.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Something like a million people vote in this event every year, according to the daytime news segment that I caught at the dentist the other afternoon while getting a tooth cleaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Each of these embryonic segments, Lewis knew, gives rise to a congruent segment found in the adult fly.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Planned M&A deals and continued issuance from the artificial-intelligence “hyperscalers” are two segments that likely can’t wait too long, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

CEO Ramon Laguarta said the performance of the company’s snacks and beverages segments fell due to “consumer budgets tightening due to rising inflationary pressures.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

However, the larger scale and stronger cash generation of Xiaomi’s internet of things and internet services segments, compared with previous smartphone downturns, should provide a buffer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The dimensions of both the swellings and their narrow connecting segments mattered.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Stravinsky's style - the jerky jigsaw of adjacent, unrelated musical segments - was also abandoned.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Reaching Gen Z means shifting toward more segmented channels like Instagram and TikTok, a move the company says it is now making.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

These systems demonstrate what segmented detectors can accomplish, but they also reveal a growing problem.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

The 2025 SDR, external recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

“By spinning off the associations, the banks segmented that risk and protected themselves from it,” McPherson said.

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

He saw a lot of insects, spiders, and shiny, segmented beetles, going in and out of the twigs.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

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

The researchers investigated the drug’s effect on numerous subgroups within their sample population, segmenting it by age, heart or lung condition, gender, smoking status or time since symptom onset.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

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

Blastoderm, blas′to-derm, n. an embryological term applied to the layer or layers of cells arising from the germinal disc, or the portion of a partially segmenting egg which undergoes division.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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