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


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Our guest represents the sixth design generation of the Toyota RAV4 compact SUV, the perennial sales leader in its segment and one of the bestselling, most trusted family vehicles in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

By adding MarketAxess, ICE will serve every segment of the fixed-income market within a single ecosystem, it said.

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

Blue Owl Capital is transitioning to a multi-strategy manager as its real assets segment eclipsed credit in fundraising during the second quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

They broke the tapes into thirty-second segments and allowed everyone to look at each segment twice, once to focus on the man and once to focus on the woman.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Over the past 12 months, nearly 75% of the capital raised from outside investors went into non-direct lending segments, including real assets and general partner strategic capital, a strategy that backs other asset managers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

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

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

They uncovered thousands of structural variants, including DNA segments that had been duplicated, deleted, or rearranged.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Among the company’s business segments, second-quarter sales for aeronautics, which includes the F-35 fighter jet, rose 9.3% to $8.11 billion, besting the FactSet consensus of $7.61 billion.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Through them, thin segments of daylight showed from the downstream side.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

Public transit there feels more segmented, so traveling to Oakland can take a long time, and getting to outdoor or hiking destinations isn’t really feasible without a car.

From MarketWatch Apr. 22, 2026

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

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 2026

He saw a lot of insects, spiders, and shiny, segmented beetles, going in and out of the twigs.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

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

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

Lawyers for the police said the officers were strictly following their training in a technique known as segmenting.

From Seattle Times Sep. 24, 2021

The report, over 300 pages long, did not indicate that anyone questioned the segmenting maneuver performed that morning.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2020

The study of the cleavage pattern of the segmenting egg furnishes the most convincing evidence that a different explanation from the one stated in the biogenetic law is the more probable explanation.

From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Morgan, Thomas Hunt




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