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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
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VERB
divide into four equal parts
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After Jake LaRavia was called for an offensive foul with 21.8 seconds left in the third quarter, Doncic was hit with his first technical foul of the season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

About a quarter of the 120,000 people estimated to have attended the festival over the past four days are thought to have travelled from outside Northern Ireland.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Google’s paid click volume has decelerated sequentially this year, falling from 13% growth in the first quarter to 8% in the third.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

The Lakers went to sleep in the second quarter and started to get cooked by the Warriors, watching their big lead get sliced to 53-53 at the half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

A ridge of pointed plates, none more than a quarter of an inch high, ran from the top of the dragon's head to the tip of its tail.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

The post-earnings plunges are reinforcing fears that the best quarters, particularly for AI-linked companies, are in the rear-view mirror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

But builders themselves also rely on debt to fund their projects, and they have reported tightening credit conditions for 18 consecutive quarters, according to a survey from the National Association of Home Builders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

This measure, known as the employment cost index, has risen at a steady pace for four straight quarters.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

"We have recently received feedback from various quarters regarding the collaborative merchandise with the Japanese television drama VIVANT," Sanrio's Chinese unit said on social media platform Weibo.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Her Royal Highness occupies a suite at the very front of the palace with excellent views over London. I can promise you quarters within her very walls. And naturally a full staff.”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Expressing affection for a specific film in a public forum is grounds to be drawn and quartered in the social media town square.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

Like sailors quartered on a battleship, they found privacy, space, and quiet hard to come by.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

I filmed a video as they pulled the cheese apart, a quartering as messy as one in a medieval village square.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

They were not even quartering on the scent.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway


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