cue
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The bite, it turns out, was less a culmination than an exit cue.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
However, for markets that are increasingly fixated on semiconductor stocks and taking their cue from them daily, it was Musk’s comments on memory chips that captured the attention.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
On cue he strolled into shot and planted a jokey kiss on his cheek before vanishing.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Instead of taking 100 swings in the cage with a specific cue, he’s building up from a blank slate every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
Then both of us, following the same, silent cue, started walking again, more cautiously this time, in case something else came around the corner.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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Later, a DJ cued up Madonna’s “Into the Groove” and guests danced to songs by Prince and Michael Jackson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Uncollected garbage rotted in heaps, and people cued outside of bakeries for their daily government ration of bread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
At one point, Musk cued Cavanaugh with an awkward joke about how the work he’d found being done at the United States Institute of Peace was actually “the opposite of the title.”
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
"The intelligence cued it up, we had sight of the whole area and we worked together. No other group of nations can do that in the world."
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
"Amen," we girls chanted, for the sound of Latin cued us for liturgical response.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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“You see the band watching him, you see him cuing them, you see the playfulness, the spontaneity, the fan reactions and his reactions to them,” Gausman continued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
For my money, the mark of any music book worth its salt is measured by the number of times I find myself cuing up another tune.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
She also suggested enrolling in electricity demand response programs, which let you sign up for text alerts when the grid is overloaded, cuing you to switch the A/C to fan or turn other appliances off.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2023
If not Amazon, you may “end up at another warehouse that is cuing its standards off of Amazon.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
Panel member Anuse finally came to the rescue with a cuing question and a long discussion ensued as to how SmurFFs were handled in the department and what happened to them.
From Wild Justice by Sprague, Ruth M.
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