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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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Sales in the quarter rose by 7.3% on the year to $177.8bn, the retailer said.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Households making less than half the country’s median income would have to pay nearly two-thirds of their income to afford a new home in the first quarter, the index showed.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

I measured this using the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index, which buys only stocks in the S&P that have increased their dividend every year for a quarter of a century.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The luxury retailer on Thursday posted adjusted earnings of $2.80 a share for the quarter ended March 28.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

In the first quarter of 2007 Scion Capital was up nearly 18 percent.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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