Thesaurus results for SECTORS

sectors

noun

plural of sector

as in regions

a specific area or part of an area They worked in the industrial sector of the city.

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a part of a sphere of activity The outlook for jobs in the health-care sector of the economy is excellent.

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Recent Examples of sectors Come Monday, employers across the region’s health care, hospitality, and construction sectors face a potential hard deadline to terminate staff who rely on Temporary Protected Status. — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2026 The move marks the latest escalation in Washington’s efforts to curb the use of Chinese technology in critical sectors, expanding restrictions beyond semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, and drones to include advanced humanoid robotics. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026 However, large mining projects here can attract financing on a scale that developers in other sectors rarely do. — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 24 July 2026 What was then an insight is now the operating condition of entire sectors. — François Candelon, Fortune, 24 July 2026 Financing to restore most sectors of the Cuban economy would come from a combination of public and private funds. — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026 Although there were some struggling sectors and important lessons to apply before the Olympics, the number of people pounding pints at pubs was unprecedented. — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 That’s not like-for-like, that is looking at two different sectors of, of the landscape and combining them. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 July 2026 Investors have also rotated into other sectors like financials while moving away from tech stocks. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 17 July 2026

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Noun

Forecasts indicate no rain in Spain’s Ávila and Madrid regions, or in France’s Gironde region, which have been ravaged by wildfires in recent days.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 26 July 2026
Some regions are heavily sampled while others remain almost blank on the map.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of regions

Noun

Instead, the government aims to build domestic alternatives in strategic segments representing roughly 20% to 30% of the market, including government cloud services, databases and simpler enterprise systems.

— Lidia Kurasinska, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Catastrophe losses of $518 million were nearly half of last year’s $927 million and reserve development was favorable across all three segments while investment income grew 14% year over year.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 20 July 2026

Definition of segments

Noun

Experience gained from managing heavy steel distortion during the welding of KSTAR’s vacuum boundaries informed the tooling and quality control methods later used to fabricate the thicker, more complex ITER sections.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026
People are flooding their comment sections from afar with questions, condolences and claims of AI manipulation.

— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 22 July 2026

Definition of sections

Noun

Sarah Dempster, an architect for Populous, said other baseball stadium projects in Atlanta, Chicago and Denver have successfully created walkable mixed-use districts around stadiums that are unique to their cities.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026
That plan includes harnessing data collected by the Independent Center, which has been using AI to identify districts where independents have the best chance of succeeding.

— Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 27 July 2026

Definition of districts

Noun

As the days went on, Mainoo cut a forlorn figure walking through various mixed zones, often being among the first to board the team bus.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Yes, cutting down on traffic, for instance through clean-air zones, will reduce both lives lost on the roads and lives lost due to air pollution.

— Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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