segment
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Within the segment, revenue from cryptocurrency trades fell 38% to $100 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The mainstay automotive segment booked an operating margin of 2.3%, down from 5.4% a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Revenue from event contracts in Robinhood’s prediction-market segment — which allows users to place wagers on things like sports and politics — increased more than tenfold to $156 million during the second quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Journalist and documentarian Jessica Sartenaer said in the segment published Wednesday that the BBC began its investigation into allegations against Leto after noting an Instagram story from a prominent DJ based in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
For some reason, I was scared to actually get out of the car, but if you pulled down the center segment of Harold’s backseat, you could reach directly into the trunk.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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Among its three core segments, vision care, its largest, saw a 4% increase in revenue, while surgical and pharmaceuticals rose 19% and 15%, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The company's chief executive Francesco Milleri said sales of AI glasses expanded across the globe and consumer segments and were generating sustainable profits.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
They uncovered thousands of structural variants, including DNA segments that had been duplicated, deleted, or rearranged.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
In a 2018 assessment, more than 50% of DWP’s trunk line segments were more than 65 years old and 11% were more than 100 years old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
As part of his obligation to include all segments of Durham, Becton suggested that C.P. be brought into the process.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
It is the latest example of Apple deploying a decades-old chip industry strategy to squeeze profits from lesser-performing processors by selling them like eggs, gas, diamonds or hotel rooms, segmented by good, better and best.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
"Instead, it was segmented into different pieces that could move with respect to each other."
From Science Daily ● 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
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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
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 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 Morgan, Thomas Hunt
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