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Rain rates are probably going to be a quarter of an inch per hour or less, making debris flow and landslides unlikely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

This includes a record-breaking $4.5 billion in rate increases during the third quarter, according to PowerLines, a consumer-education organization.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

At least a quarter of this hefty volume is devoted to scholarship of one sort or another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

GDP reached an annualized $32.56 trillion in the second quarter ending Sept. 30.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The bell weighs a quarter of a ton.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

To the sound of a fog horn, she roams through Alma’s quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Cleveland is gaining confidence after winning three consecutive close games with strong fourth quarters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

With both numbers hitting all-time highs, the company will have broken its own records for both sales and operating profit for four consecutive quarters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Nearly three quarters of England and all of Wales are still in drought.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

During the six months prior to the dinner at Jefferson’s quarters, Madison went through a conversion process, or perhaps a reconversion, from the religion of nationalism to the old revolutionary faith of Virginia.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

With a slight splash, Matthew began scooping quartered slices of peaches into his mouth with such a zealous sucking and slurping that even his father paused to witness the divertissement.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

I drove into a wind quartering in from my starboard bow and felt the buffeting, sometimes staggering blows of the gale I helped to make.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck