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So, do the military plane flyovers, cue the performances, fill the wine the glasses, Kritenbrink says.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

"The dark chocolate scent serves as a learned cue for a rich, bitter, and highly satiating food, which essentially tricks the system into an anticipatory state of fullness," said Nashrudin Naharudin.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Equally shattering is a cue surging through a long scene bereft of dialogue, where Alex discovers a tampered-with wine bottle and realizes that he is married to a spy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

I turned instinctively toward the menagerie because this was the cue for the elephant act.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

I was terrified that I cued the cars early.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

What you put on your TV, what fast food restaurants you pass by on the way to work, we are constantly being cued.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Luma cued up her iPod, which was plugged into her car stereo, and turned up the music.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

“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

Without missing a beat, Raitt leaned over and smoothly filled in the missing word, gently cuing Mitchell to find the rest of the line.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

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