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segment

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


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Winfrey won the case in 1998, and was so impressed by McGraw that she invited him onto her show and he subsequently landed a weekly segment.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

However, profitability at the German reinsurer’s life segment was weaker than expected and currency effects seemed to have contributed to this, according to KBW.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The segment, still dominated today by Japanese firms, has won new popularity in recent years among customers put off by high prices for pure EVs and expensive fuel.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

But the segment grew approximately three times as fast as the company’s home-rental business, according to Airbnb’s last shareholder letter.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

He pulled off a segment and sighed with pleasure.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

Thomson Reuters TRI 11.34%increase; green up pointing triangle bumped up its revenue targets for the year after logging double-digit growth across its three big business segments in the latest quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The industry remains focused on low-margin products such as T-shirts and jeans, while rivals have moved into higher-value segments made with synthetic fibre.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Pretax profit increased across the bank’s four key segments, rising especially sharply in the business of supporting affluent clients with their finances.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The Coca-Cola Co. bottler said revenue per case rose and that earnings were boosted by growth in both its sparkling and energy segments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Above the machines, wrapping around the interior of the entire station, was a vast mural that occupied, in four long segments, the upper half of the station’s main walls.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

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

Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.

From MarketWatch Mar. 21, 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

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

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

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

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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