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cue

[kyoo] / kju /


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And we took our cue, having done all this research into stuff that Elon said, from something he kept going over again: This idea that we’re likely living in a simulation.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

His interactions with Holmes are pure cringe comedy, like when she starts to cry perhaps a bit on cue and he stiffly sputters, “Do you want, like, a tissue?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Investors took that as a cue he really would raise interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

"We don't think chocolate is entirely unique, though it is a food cue with incredibly strong, universally recognized reward associations," Nashrudin Naharudin concluded.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The master laughed, glancing around to cue the rest of us.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Peyton Manning sat in the studio and cued the video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

These conflicting emotions are cued by music that enacts the characters’ inner lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The Dodgers cued up Shohei Ohtani’s walk-up song by Michael Bublé one afternoon in honor of his rarest of performances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

When Olsen cued up “Frozen Love” at Sound City, Fleetwood couldn’t believe his ears.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

"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

“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

He not only conducted the orchestra upstage, but regularly pivoted to turn downstage, cuing the principal singers when they needed it.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2023

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 Ruth M. Sprague


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