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segment

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


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Missing from that framing was the question that should have governed the segment: Who actually sent the material?

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

The network aired a lengthy segment on the Thursday’s edition of “Today” to explain how its decision desk operates and comes up with its election night projections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Intel’s PC weakness “more than” offsets the strength it is showing in its data-center and AI segment, Arya wrote in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“She hit my Achilles’ heel,” Schreiber explained later in his late-night segment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Ampai nodded and popped a segment of tangerine in her mouth, offering one to Somkit, too.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

General Dynamics grew revenue across all four of its business segments, led by marine systems, its largest and fastest growing business, with revenue up 21% to $4.96 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ultimately, he believes the new administration will have to "build bridges to the segments that have been operating well in the past".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"The board of directors commended the very good operational performance of all business segments which enabled the company to capture higher market prices," the company said in its earnings statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

New research published in Science Advances suggests that their extraordinary evolutionary success was partly driven by mobile segments of DNA known as transposable elements, or "jumping genes."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

In music, the segments are the individual notes of a line in the music.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

It also had a segmented trunk and six walking legs, the basic body organization associated with insects.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

The birds themselves swooped and cried, weaving in and out of immense, curved ridges that could only be spines, segmented and spurred, and, unmistakably: giant hands, giant feet.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

Lawyers for the police said the officers were strictly following their training in a technique known as segmenting.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

The report, over 300 pages long, did not indicate that anyone questioned the segmenting maneuver performed that morning.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020

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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