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


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Missing from that framing was the question that should have governed the segment: Who actually sent the material?

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

The network aired a lengthy segment on the Thursday’s edition of “Today” to explain how its decision desk operates and comes up with its election night projections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Between a paved path and the floor-to-ceiling windows at the museum’s southern end sits a small, warped segment of grass that is already struggling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Mastercard’s payment-network revenue rose 11%, while its value-added services-and-solutions segment revenue grew 19%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

One line segment contains 11 of those pieces; the other contains 13.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Ultimately, he believes the new administration will have to "build bridges to the segments that have been operating well in the past".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"The board of directors commended the very good operational performance of all business segments which enabled the company to capture higher market prices," the company said in its earnings statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

A decline in revenue at its investment bank was offset by increases in other segments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

New research published in Science Advances suggests that their extraordinary evolutionary success was partly driven by mobile segments of DNA known as transposable elements, or "jumping genes."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Earth, the meeting agreed, was a mosaic of interconnected segments whose various stately jostlings accounted for much of the planet’s surface behavior.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Professional investors have long segmented the market by how large and how fast-growing stocks are, although the definitions of “large,” “small,” “growth” and “value” are all over the map.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

It had large eyes extending from stalks at the front of its body, along with a segmented skeleton and jointed limbs attached beneath its narrow frame.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

The 2025 SDR, external recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026

The birds themselves swooped and cried, weaving in and out of immense, curved ridges that could only be spines, segmented and spurred, and, unmistakably: giant hands, giant feet.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

At the Landings Golf & Athletic Club in Savannah, Ga., executive director Steven Freund credits a strategy of segmenting programming to fit every age, even if it means ruffling a few feathers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Surveys indicate that people tend to prefer segmenting their professional and personal lives instead of integrating them.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

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

Blastoderm, blas′to-derm, n. an embryological term applied to the layer or layers of cells arising from the germinal disc, or the portion of a partially segmenting egg which undergoes division.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various


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