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Now they are forecasting sales to be up 1.3% for the year and down 3.5% for the fourth quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
But Herbert had only 15 pass attempts entering the third quarter — as few as in any game in his previous six NFL seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
More than a quarter of a century after he stopped playing for West Ham, the chant still regularly sung by fans shows the affection in which former Hammers goalkeeper Ludek Miklosko is held.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
As of the first quarter of 2026, home prices were overvalued in 81% of American metro areas, Fitch Ratings said in a recent report, with 48% of them overvalued by more than 10%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nancy handed her dad the quarter George had given her.
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
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According to his analysis, going back to 1945, the second and third quarters of midterm election years have registered the only back-to-back quarterly declines for the stock market, on average, during four-year presidential cycles.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The victory follows a season of criticism for Manning after Ohio State held him scoreless for three quarters in a 14-7 loss the previous year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Dos Pueblos finished 24-3 last season and played even with JSerra for almost three quarters before losing 20-0 in the Division 1 semifinals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Trade contracted 1.9 percent, ending six straight quarters of growth, while manufacturing posted a third consecutive decline, with seven of its 10 divisions reporting weaker output.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Dasch and Burger were assigned to the officers' quarters in the forward part of the submarine.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
The dried apricots and figs should be quartered, and the apple diced to a similar size.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024
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
A draught of cooks, from every inn and eating-house for miles around, arrived to supplement the dwarves and other odd folk that were quartered at Bag End.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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
The Huskies were trending toward a possible shutout, leading 37-0 going into the fourth quartering.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2020
They were not even quartering on the scent.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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