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queue

[kyoo] / kju /


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If your podcast queue is overloaded with relentless news and true crime, let this be your breath of fresh country air.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

BBC Sport understands people were having to queue for about two hours.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Someone complains about the line, the weather, our politics or the UPS driver who goes to the front of the queue.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

So do the church basement, the neighborhood barbecue, the youth-sports sideline and the ferry queue.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

It was driving normal speed, taking its turn in the queue.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Tickets went on sale Tuesday and were going briskly, with digital wait times reported of more than four hours in queues with as many as 13,000 guests.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

But the hours beforehand will have felt anything but glamorous as heightened security meant those getting into the ground faced long queues.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

This week, Ryanair said "the failed EES rollout" was causing unnecessary delays and long queues.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

And in Vologda, Nikolai, a motorist who declined to give his surname, said "more stations have started working again, and petrol deliveries have become more frequent. Naturally, the queues have shrunk".

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

He said the combination of queues and cameras made it the easiest place for a spy to be photographed and identified.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Fans queued at New Street station to have their photo taken with the mechanical Ozzy the bull statue, which has been specially dressed up for Ozzy Day, receiving a free commemorative Polaroid.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Customers queued in long lines to snap up a special-edition Harry Potter collection last year, for example.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Customers queued in long lines for a special-edition Harry Potter doughnut collection last year, for example.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

The islands' roughly 200,000 inhabitants have queued at petrol stations in recent days and thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

I had a thousand things queued up behind my lips.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

Those queuing to meet her included a starstruck 21-year-old man clutching a 1980s vinyl album.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

However, compared to a premium of 38%, these are negligible and without unforeseen obstacles, hedge funds and proprietary trading desks will be queuing up to put the trade on.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

The paupers’ food line was still there, queuing up patiently around the side of the palace: the young, the old, the in-between, all just as hungry and downtrodden as ever.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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