segment

Example Sentences

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He insists the railways will continue to find creative ways to counter the threat: conducting faster repairs, dispersing locomotives in various locations and dispatching replacement buses when segments of the network are down.

From The Wall Street Journal

The second is that, traditionally religious identities like “evangelical Christian,” for example, have, for some, become cultural signifiers for some segment of the population.

From Salon

China’s consumer recovery remains uneven, but one segment is expanding fast enough to redraw spending patterns across retail, travel, food, and services: people who are staying single longer—and spending differently.

From Barron's

“We do not like the risk reward that these situations offer, and therefore we put up the white flag and said, ‘we can’t compete in this segment right now,’” Jain said.

From The Wall Street Journal

"These movements resulted in an unjustified escalation that harmed the interests of the Yemeni people with all of its segments," it added.

From Barron's