segment
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Last week, HP said its personal systems segment, which houses its PC business, recorded an 18% rise in revenue for the second quarter, even as the number of units sold fell 16%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Tyson Foods now expects its beef segment to post an adjusted operating loss of $625 million to $775 million for the fiscal year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
And after posting an earnings beat and lifting its revenue forecast for a key segment Wednesday, investors now have more reason to be upbeat about the cloud-based data-storage provider.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Emmy-winning culinary star and TV personality De Laurentiis said during Wednesday’s “GMA” segment that “the dancing is a lot rougher than I thought it would be.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
They both scrutinized the same segment of the path multiple times before Seth began to search off the trail.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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As in “The Larry Sanders Show,” the greatest of all shows within a show, there are on-set segments featuring interviews with guests and, often, a musical performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
This editing step matters because different combinations of RNA segments can produce proteins with different functions or direct them to different locations inside a cell.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Intelligent Cloud is one of three operating segments at Microsoft, generating 42% of sales last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"If our recent advertisement has inadvertently hurt the sentiments of some segments of society, that was not our intent at all. Out of respect, we have withdrawn the advertisement from all media," it added.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
They thought preschoolers did not have the attention span to handle anything other than very short, tightly focused segments.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Segments 1 through 9 carried segmented appendages, and the rear abdominal limbs had been modified into paddle-like structures.
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
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
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
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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