cue
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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
But teachers and principals don’t need a cue from on high to experiment, and they shouldn’t have to fill out reports every time they want to try something new.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
This pressure was the cue for ball-playing centre-backs to combine with nearby holding midfielders, using slick one-touch passing combinations before punching daring passes to their forwards.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Still, most of the class groans on cue.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
Peyton Manning sat in the studio and cued the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
On weekends, he had a different moniker, DJ Steve King, as he cued up Elvis and Everly Brothers tunes on his father’s radio station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
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
They come together, cued by the conductor, with a sense of nature’s unpredictability.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
The word “no” is cued up on my tongue, but I swallow it down and tell her OK, and she cheers and yells for Celia.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
“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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