queue

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Since the war began, both Ukraine and Moldova have joined the queue of countries seeking accession alongside Balkan hopefuls: Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Now, it is preparing to add customers requesting more than 4,000 megawatts of service—and an additional 19,000 megawatts of requests are waiting in a queue, more than twice the system’s peak demand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

"We had to wait in the queue for nearly one hour for them to open and there was one pallet of water left."

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Richardson said: "There's no policing of it at all, it is purely free will, if you want to queue you can."

From BBC • May 28, 2026

As I rushed to join my teammates, I looked down to see a queue of approximately fifty climbers from other expeditions moving up the ropes, too; the first of them were now immediately below me.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer