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[seg-muhnt, seg-ment, seg-ment] / ˈsɛg mənt, ˈsɛg mɛnt, sɛgˈmɛnt /


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Core sales gained in Newell’s learning-and-development segment, which includes its baby and writing businesses, as well as in its outdoor-and-recreation segment, Newell said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

KKR started out as a private-equity specialist about 50 years ago, then expanded into real estate, credit investing and other markets, giving it ballast to weather volatility in any one segment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

"Today, Apple is proud to report our strongest June quarter ever, with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac and Services, and in every geographic segment," Cook said in a statement.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

However, funds flowing into the real assets segment ticked up 10% to $4.4 billion from $4 billion in the first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Hyten invited me to come and watch them produce a cartoon segment to really appreciate how flat the world is, which I did.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

"TRACE allowed us to contextualize how the ancestry segments from these previously uncharacterized hominins are distributed throughout the human genome," Biddanda said.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Among its three core segments, vision care, its largest, saw a 4% increase in revenue, while surgical and pharmaceuticals rose 19% and 15%, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

"All segments contributed to this year-on-year improvement," Rheinmetall said.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Filming for short films and documentaries were also higher in the second quarter, though those two segments had much smaller numbers of shoot days, FilmLA said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

“Just don’t do it again,” he said, then he grabbed the saw and quickly cut three more step segments, kicking the scraps into a pile at the base of the trunk.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

The 2025 SDR, external recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.

From BBC Jun. 11, 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

"Instead, it was segmented into different pieces that could move with respect to each other."

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 2026

Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.

From MarketWatch Mar. 21, 2026

I nodded toward a dark sprawling building farther down the path, its walls glistening with arch after arch of segmented windows.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

Donets recommends segmenting your customer base as granularly as possible so that you can precisely tailor your messaging and offerings.

From Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2023

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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