cue
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The bite, it turns out, was less a culmination than an exit cue.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
That was the cue to a swarm of Mr. Vance’s social-media minions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In fact, they needed snookers while playing blind-folded and without a cue ball.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
It was China that gave the market its cue.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
He hit the cue ball, sending one of the reds straight into the middle pocket.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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
When Olsen cued up “Frozen Love” at Sound City, Fleetwood couldn’t believe his ears.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
They come together, cued by the conductor, with a sense of nature’s unpredictability.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
"The intelligence cued it up, we had sight of the whole area and we worked together. No other group of nations can do that in the world."
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
I had forgotten that I’d cued up a song.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
“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
The research lacked rigor, critics argued, and what seemed like animal communication could simply have been wishful thinking, with researchers unconsciously cuing their animals to respond in certain ways.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
Sometimes, I just take several deep inhales instead of cuing up the track.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 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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