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cue

[kyoo] / kju /


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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

So, do the military plane flyovers, cue the performances, fill the wine the glasses, Kritenbrink says.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We don't think chocolate is entirely unique, though it is a food cue with incredibly strong, universally recognized reward associations," Nashrudin Naharudin concluded.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Akira knew that was her cue, but she couldn’t move.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Pride could learn to communicate orally, through cued speech or in American Sign Language, they were told.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

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 teacher cued us onto our bellies for a backbend sequence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

England was warm and cloudy, and each morning I walked the tree- lined streets near the tennis courts, passing teenagers cued up for leftover tickets and vendors selling strawberries and cream.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

“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

Sometimes, I just take several deep inhales instead of cuing up the track.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2023

But ideally, you would give yourself a two-hour period to “turn down the volume on your sympathetic nervous system,” he said, cuing to your body and brain that you’re gearing up to rest.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 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


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