cue card
Example Sentences
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Two employees told the magazine that they remember witnessing Fallon scold a crew member holding a cue card during an episode that featured Seinfeld — and that the comic told the host to apologize.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023
Forced to stay, he displayed his typical incompetence, mistakenly reading the entirety of a cue card aloud on the air: "We'll stay on the air until a winner is declared. Take off glasses, look concerned."
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2023
A few hours before the last episode of the season Saturday, the TV show’s Instagram account posted a cue card saying, “we’ll miss you, Cecily.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2022
A classic example is the view of the "cue card", or "clapperboard", that Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders used in his onboard "home movies".
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2022
Ms. Whitlock exclaimed like she was reading it off a cue card.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
