cue
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If you’d rather stay in and watch TV, you should cue up Amazon’s latest hit show, Sterling Point.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The bite, it turns out, was less a culmination than an exit cue.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
So when the final whistle sounded, he took it as a cue to go absolutely bananas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Instead of taking 100 swings in the cage with a specific cue, he’s building up from a blank slate every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
As if on cue, one of the serpents lifted its head slightly from the basket to eye them with curiosity.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
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
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
As she cued up the set-closer, Karma, Swift thanked her fans one last time.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
Spoon had it cued up right where it needed to be—right as the locker was being unlocked.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
“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
Like his first projects, the video heightens the essence of the spectacle, but does so by exploring the margins: brass musicians’ puffing cheeks, producers cuing commercial breaks, players’ ankles on the sidelines.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
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
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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