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The resilience of the economy is expected to lead to an increase in gross domestic product in the second quarter close to the 2.1% growth rate of the first quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

The rates, which serve as benchmarks for most household and corporate loans, will likely remain unchanged despite weaker-than-expected economic performance in the second quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Netflix revenue rose 13% to $12.6 billion in the second quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

The 20-year-old scored three goals for Switzerland as they reached the quarter finals of the World Cup before losing to Argentina.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Next time you’ll think twice before you throw away your quarter on something silly.”

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

They mix in large numbers at close quarters, while sharing kitchens, accommodation and going on nights out.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Tech might have awesome earnings, but in one, two or three quarters, will it still be true?” asked David Russell, global head of market strategy at TradeStation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026

Canada entered a technical recession earlier this year, after reporting two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Data indicate Canada’s economic activity accelerated in the April-to-June period following two straight quarters of contraction—which economists and central bank officials say should put to bed talk of a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

But between me and where my parents should be are the quarters of half the Collective.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

The British army quartered itself in the colonists' meager homes, slept in their beds, burned their firewood, ate their scarce food, and confiscated their guns so they couldn't form a militia to fight back.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2023

There was not a single lad about—the men were quartered half a mile away on the other side of the airfield and used a different shelter—those that weren’t scrambling into aircraft to fight back.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

The Huskies were trending toward a possible shutout, leading 37-0 going into the fourth quartering.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2020

The wind, however, was gusting erratically out of the west, quartering across the racecourse at roughly a forty-five-degree angle, pushing in bursts and fits at the starboard side of the shell.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown