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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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Awkwardly for the PM, you can be pretty sure in the next few days that the pressure will come very publicly from a different quarter.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

According to tracking by the New York Fed, the percentage of credit-card loan balances that were 90 days or more delinquent was over 13% as of the first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

Investors in BlackRock’s BLK 1.04%increase; green up pointing triangle flagship private-credit fund asked to redeem a collective 13.3% of the fund’s shares in the second quarter, an increase from 9.3% in the previous period.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

And the massive run-up in tech stocks since the end of the first quarter certainly hasn’t helped.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

At quarter past four o’clock, probably, we were at the Duchess’s doors with our hearts in our mouths.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck




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