cues

Example Sentences

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The greatest variation appeared when bees flew above the cornfield, where the scenery offered fewer distinct visual cues.

From Science Daily • Jun. 14, 2026

In practice, Khamenei generally takes his cues from a group of hard-line generals, mediators said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

“I wanted the music to have a much more whimsical take, at times, than some of the darker cues in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The film’s Silicon Valley setting is clearly a very deliberate choice by the filmmakers – and something they remind us of, repeatedly, through such cues.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

Children’s knowledge of how to use a tool could be a result of their experience with the tool; alternatively, it could be a result of their perceiving the tool’s affordances from shape and manipulability cues.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker