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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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Investors were impressed by Salesforce’s artificial-intelligence progress in the latest quarter as the software giant on Wednesday reported an earnings beat driven by growing demand for the company’s agentic-AI tools.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

HP HPQ 3.39%increase; up pointing triangle reported revenue growth in the third quarter, as higher prices and demand for personal computers optimized for artificial intelligence more than offset a decline in PC sales volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

He said the guidance for next quarter "points to revenue comfortably above $110bn."

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

For the fiscal third quarter, Salesforce guided for revenue between $11.42 billion and $11.5 billion, beating the $11.415 billion anticipated by analysts polled by FactSet.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

“We want to buy a quarter of your new hedge fund. For a million dollars.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

But Dolly was also written off in some quarters because of her place of origin and how she spoke.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

Once viewed as the most successful of China’s top emerging electric-vehicle brands, the Beijing-based company has seen its fortunes decline in recent quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

"We expect to see many public miners continue winding down their Bitcoin mining hardware in the coming quarters," he said.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

But Cantwell said Visa’s past two quarters were some of its strongest in years, driving a rebound through the summer.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

I was cutting and bundling quilting squares into a dozen fat quarters, a-mix-and-matched stack of fabrics all measured and ready to sew.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

The old-fashioned quartered blooms open violet-pink with a copper center that gradually fades to cream.

From Seattle Times Feb. 17, 2024

The quartered carcass of an ox filled the wagon bed, along with two dead sheep.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Waves were quartering across the racecourse now, constantly threatening to throw the boats off keel.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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