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segment

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


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Adjusted operating income in its pharmacy and consumer wellness segment, however, climbed over 10% to $1.6 billion, primarily driven by core pharmacy strength and contributions from its Rite Aid asset acquisitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Results for Expedia’s business-to-business segment were also up, as sales in the division surged 23% and gross bookings rose 19%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

In the health-care benefits segment, revenue rose 2.4% to $36.9 billion, driven by an increase in the government business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

At the group’s auto segment, earnings before interest and taxes plunged 40% to 901 million euros as sales fell and its margin shrank to 3.4% from 5.2% a year before, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

We can, following Abbott, imagine a world of one dimension, where everyone is a line segment, or even the magical world of zero-dimensional beasts, the points.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Young men and Latino voters -- two segments of the American electorate crucial to Trump -- turned sharply away from the president and his Republican Party, exit polls showed.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

CVS Health raised its full-year guidance on gains in its health-care benefits and pharmacy segments, but said it remains cautious amid high costs and potential macroeconomic headwinds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

"And I think that reflects the concentration of growth across certain segments of the economy."

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

The Reuters news segments notched a 13% increase in revenue on last year to $232 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

What happens when we try really small segments, measuring in bits a millionth of an inch each?

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

Software that can’t operate in a segmented network will soon be unfit for federal use, and agencies are writing this requirement into future contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

“By spinning off the associations, the banks segmented that risk and protected themselves from it,” McPherson said.

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

I nodded toward a dark sprawling building farther down the path, its walls glistening with arch after arch of segmented windows.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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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