queue
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She encountered a queue that ballooned to over 80,000 people—the longest in the museum’s history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The law prohibits using software to get around ticket limits, queue and presale restrictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
He waited about two hours in the cashier's queue, with customers crowded inside but few staff working.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
It often starts with helping one visitor take a picture and ends with a long queue.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Our gang formed the head of the queue before the cook-house.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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The exhibition opened on 10 September but has experienced a series of problems with queues and congestion, with some visitors spending longer than their allocated 40-minute slot viewing the tapestry.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Fuel is unavailable, there are huge queues everywhere," he told AFP from his motionless Toyota sedan after a one-and-a-half hour drive from the capital Ulaanbaatar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Still, sailors said that having no Wi-Fi made communicating with family and friends challenging, since there are often queues for the shared computers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The queues were supposed to imitate the tails of horses, as if we were animals who had been tamed.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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In Marawi, a city long-identified with a bloody showdown between government forces and jihadists, AFP journalists saw long lines of voters peacefully queued outside polling stations with tanks and security personnel standing watch.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
On Tuesday morning, dozens queued up, sometimes wrapping around the shop’s interior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Which makes the moment when we still have to ask ourselves what sounds good feel increasingly precious: a little unoptimized space before something has been recommended, queued or dropped into a cart for us.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
At Roundhay Park in Leeds, hundreds gathered and queued to get a look through a telescope set up by Leeds Astronomical Society.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
I had a thousand things queued up behind my lips.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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A new virtual queuing system for visitors with accessibility needs to be introduced first at Alton Towers has been praised by charities.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"This new virtual queuing approach has been designed in response to that feedback."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Fans had begun queuing more than an hour before the doors opened.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
That led to 20 percent fewer vessels and a 17 percent drop in tonnage, not to mention longer lines of ships queuing up.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
After queuing up with traders waiting for the truck, he managed to pile into the back.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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