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segment

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


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Wood’s execution generated extensive publicity, including a “60 Minutes” segment in which I, then a Ninth Circuit judge, was interviewed, and then nothing happened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The following year, he appeared on a segment of ABC’s dramedy series “Life Goes On” and played a character with HIV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

But sales in Conagra’s refrigerated and frozen segment fell 2.1% during its first quarter, which ran through August, the company said Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

MediaTek faces several competitors in the premium smartphone chip segment, including Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and Huawei’s HiSilicon, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In one segment, oil derricks stood below a flooded landscape, water engulfing a city.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

China’s exports of rare earths, power equipment, printed circuit boards, optical transceiver and mature-node semiconductors represent over 50% of global market share in their respective segments, GS says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Bartlett had created the character almost a decade earlier, after a stint producing claymation segments for “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Vysotsky said Ukrainians "understand the sensitivity of certain segments for European farmers" and were open to "substantive discussions about adaptation periods, the scale of market access and safeguard mechanisms".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

A lot of these goods are coming to Indian shores because it is rapidly expanding manufacturing across segments of the economy, but also as "Western markets impose tariffs and other restrictions", says Srivastava.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

I have learned that humans divide time into segments called years, months, and days.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

Many still possessed segmented limbs along the abdomen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Professional investors have long segmented the market by how large and how fast-growing stocks are, although the definitions of “large,” “small,” “growth” and “value” are all over the map.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

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

Surveys indicate that people tend to prefer segmenting their professional and personal lives instead of integrating them.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

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

Later that day in John’s class, students broke into small groups to practice writing and segmenting words into different sounds.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

The study of the cleavage pattern of the segmenting egg furnishes the most convincing evidence that a different explanation from the one stated in the biogenetic law is the more probable explanation.

From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan




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