segment
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Nucor NUE -0.29%decrease; down pointing triangle reported a higher profit and rising revenue in the third quarter, as its steel mills segment continues to propel the company’s earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Nearly 80% of the all-inclusive-resort industry has moved into the “luxury or upper upscale” segment over the past two decades, the analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
His recurring segment “Nathan on Your Side” was the first use of a gauche interviewing style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
It said China had been the key driver, its sales there advancing nearly three times faster than the overall market, with the luxury segment also growing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 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
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These instructions are found in small segments of mitochondrial DNA known as open reading frames.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
You have to wonder if he’ll lose a bit of the arrogance, if the space between Watters’ segments and the network’s chosen tack will grow even wider.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
But while some segments are flexible - especially in the Sunday result show - their main roles appear fixed.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The increase was driven by growth in each of the company’s business segments: aeronautics, missiles and fire control, space, and rotary and mission systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Ed Lewis’s discovery of master-regulatory genes that controlled the development of segments, organs, and structures solved the problem of the final stage of embryogenesis, but it raised a seemingly infinite recursive conundrum.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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It also had a segmented trunk and six walking legs, the basic body organization associated with insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 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
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
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
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
It aims to preserve user privacy by segmenting its audience into larger groups.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
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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