quarter
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Smucker SJM -0.33%decrease; down pointing triangle raised its outlook for the year after logging higher-than-expected adjusted earnings and sales in the first quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Consumer spending rose in July at the slowest pace in seven months, suggesting the U.S. economy lost a little steam after the end of the 2026 Word Cup and start of the third quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Smucker raised its outlook for the year after logging higher-than-expected adjusted earnings and sales in the first quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The slowdown in July could point to softer growth in the third quarter running from July through September.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
While Nadine put her quarter into the gumball machine, George tiptoed toward her.
From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene
But Dolly was also written off in some quarters because of her place of origin and how she spoke.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
In recent quarters, the company has rolled out more support initiatives to prevent merchants from defecting to other platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
A Freedom of Information request by BBC Wales suggested more than three quarters of schools in Wales still contained asbestos.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
He remembered what Mr. Andrews had told him: The ladders are in the stokers’ quarters, and they run up three decks.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
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
His steel was a deep cobalt, even the blunt momingstar he wielded with such deadly effect, his mount barded in the quartered sun-and-moon heraldry of House Tarth.
From "A Clash of Kings" 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
A team of volunteer cooks is preparing lunch for 200 senior citizens, cutting cornbread, tossing spinach salad, quartering oranges.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
With serious face and a high-held, final flick he split each side in half, quartering the pig.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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