sectors

plural of sector

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sectors And the policies are projected to have far-ranging effects on most areas of business, including a potential loss of hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers in sectors like information and educational and health services. Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025 Giants like Dassault, Ansys, and Siemens initially rolled out products catering to aviation, shipping, automotive, and petrochemical sectors. Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025 The five-year plan in focus this week is expected to emphasize China’s economic security and technological innovation in sectors like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, new energy and biotechnology. Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025 The thread itself will be available for sale to other brands, and early discussions are underway with other sportswear labels and with companies in the furniture and automotive sectors. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025 As cryptoassets, including but not limited to bitcoin itself, trade more closely in alignment with other sectors, investors and advocates alike will need to adjust. Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 18 Oct. 2025 The company operates across the $7 billion Chinese and $4 billion international short-form content sectors, with a library of 1,000 titles spanning eight studios and five apps. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025 Under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia has in recent years been liberalizing key sectors including finance and telecommunications. Martin K.n Siele, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025 Talbott’s firm invests heavily in the aerospace, defense, government, and technology sectors. Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sectors
Noun
  • The National Weather Service (NWS) had issued beach hazard statements for several regions along the West Coast as of early Tuesday, warning of both large breaking waves and sneaker waves.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Areas related to memory, emotion and sensory processing — like the hippocampus and parahippocampal regions — were especially affected, the study found.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Corning has a few other reporting segments, and those are tied to the television display, automotive, and life sciences industries.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The series centered around celebrity guests stopping by their kitchen and learning how to make dishes such as margarita pretzel bars, bread pudding and cranberry turkey chili in short video segments.
    Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The orchestra’s sections — strings, percussion, and so on — work together, and the output of any one section alone cannot produce a symphony.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Divide the tubers in spring by cutting tubers into sections with a body, neck, and at least one eye.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Without the requirement to protect majority-minority districts, Republicans would have far greater freedom to redraw congressional maps in ways that dilute the voting power of Black and other minority communities—areas that tend to favor Democrats.
    Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In 2010 when Democrats controlled the Indiana House, the party held nine of the 11 districts that touched the state’s border, including two that overlapped with Perry County.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The same technology’s feasibility should also be assessed under different climate zones, and full life cycle assessments (cradle-to-grave) of GS are a necessity for a better understanding of the technology’s merits and limits, researchers noted.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In these zones, dahlias can survive the winter in the ground and regrow again in the spring.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Sectors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sectors. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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