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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

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

Between a paved path and the floor-to-ceiling windows at the museum’s southern end sits a small, warped segment of grass that is already struggling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Revenue at the global banking and investor solutions segment rose 12.5% during the quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Hyten invited me to come and watch them produce a cartoon segment to really appreciate how flat the world is, which I did.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

Bausch + Lomb benefited from broad-based growth across its segments, with 5% growth in revenue at its largest segment, Vision Care, which rose to $774 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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

On the “happy” segments inserted for comparison purposes, he scored 14.13, which was substantially lower than both Rather and Brokaw.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

It had large eyes extending from stalks at the front of its body, along with a segmented skeleton and jointed limbs attached beneath its narrow frame.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Public transit there feels more segmented, so traveling to Oakland can take a long time, and getting to outdoor or hiking destinations isn’t really feasible without a car.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 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

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

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 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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