queue
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A queue of traders and families waited in line at the jetty.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Amit Yair, 77, was blunter as he waited in a long queue to order coffee.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
During the day, shoppers had to queue up for bag searches - a custom that Ervine grew up believing was the norm.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He noted that there is “not one electron” of always-on power, sometimes referred to as baseload, in the California Independent System Operator’s interconnection queue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The man handed over the ticket and led us over to where he’d been standing in the queue.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
This week across Moscow, and in other parts of Russia, there have been long queues for petrol.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
This time the queues in Moscow are even longer than before.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Long queues of people could be seen evacuating towns on foot, by motorbike and car, some piled into the back of pickup trucks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The situation had eased at the end of July, but queues and local shortages of some fuel types have reemerged in Moscow in recent days.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Every time I turned my e-mail program on, I faced hundreds of messages from kids, students, former students, parents, and teachers stacked in vast queues; it took hours just to download the mail.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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
Dozens queued on a pontoon at Fourka waiting to flee as smoke blotted out the sky over the resorts, according to images broadcast by ERT.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Young people draped in Indian flags queued for food, painted placards and posed for photographs, while rows of police and paramilitary personnel sealed every road to parliament around them.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
With round- the-clock pressure to test the airplanes queued up in the hangar, engineers would welcome the additional hands.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
"Right now there are about 15 tractors queuing to fill up," Jean-Pierre Robert, who manages a lakeside hotel, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Fans have been queuing outside cinemas to catch the latest Spider-Man film, with many hailing it as a spectacular return for the web-slinging superhero.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Among the crowds queuing for a photo was Julie Sawyer and her daughter Holly, who travelled from Nottingham to pay their respects.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But for several weeks, queuing for petrol has become a staple of life during the dragging Ukraine conflict, causing impatience at petrol stations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
He sleeps with his head twisted in his hands, and the mosquitoes are queuing up for his blood.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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