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cue

[kyoo] / kju /


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

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Investors took that as a cue he really would raise interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Conversely, the sweeter milk chocolate scent acts more like a hedonic reward cue, enhancing training volume by creating a highly pleasant sensory environment rather than by shifting basic metabolic hunger signals."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

In the wine-cellar scene where Devlin discovers uranium—a substance used to build an atomic bomb—in a bottle, Hitchcock relies entirely on Latin dance tunes playing upstairs rather than a suspense cue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Asked by the agent which team I supported, I took my cue from her red turtleneck and told her that I was for State.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

I was terrified that I cued the cars early.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

He cued off more sneers, with me, this time, as the butt of ridicule.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“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

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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