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Right on cue, he gets the response that he was looking for as Shea has a sheepish smile, and Pierce launches into a rendition of 'Happy Birthday' for the cameras.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

And we took our cue, having done all this research into stuff that Elon said, from something he kept going over again: This idea that we’re likely living in a simulation.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

His interactions with Holmes are pure cringe comedy, like when she starts to cry perhaps a bit on cue and he stiffly sputters, “Do you want, like, a tissue?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 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

Getting my uniform on was like a cue to start a race.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

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

The films, which are cued as though musical elements, run the gamut of cinematic styles and periods.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Pamela has barely been arrested, yet he already has her entire family history cued up and all set to go.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

“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