queue
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Records that weren’t lucrative or released may have been cut from the labels’ catalog, excluded from the digitization process or fallen to the back of the queue for uploading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
"I have been spending more time on the fuel queue than on my business and it is not sustainable," said McDonald Kachule, a motorcycle taxi operator in central Lilongwe for six years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The first person in the queue had been there since 04:00 GMT.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Nearly 1,200 undergraduates were in the class in the winter term of 2024 and they flooded the online queue for office hours.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
“If you cut your queue, dressed and talked like other people?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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They were planning on visiting earlier in the month, but decided against it when they saw long queues documented on social media.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Long queues formed outside polling stations in larger cities and smaller towns alike in Serbia, and at polling stations abroad - including Slovenia's capital Ljubljana, Munich, Los Angeles and Chicago.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
“So we support the thinning of the queues and getting the better, realistic decisions to make sure we can all move forward.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The exhibition opened on 10 September but has experienced a series of problems with queues and congestion, with some visitors spending longer than their allocated 40-minute slot viewing the tapestry.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Mercy Watts's family got moved onto one o' them 'official sites' down Sevenoaks way. Rents, queues, lists, wardens. Council houses on wheels, they are.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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A crowd had gathered outside the court, with dozens of Hongkongers having queued for hours hoping to get a seat in the public gallery.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Santosh, a 47-year-old businessman who uses one name, queued with hundreds of others as crowds set off fireworks outside while waiting for the show.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
When it ended, dozens queued to meet and take photos with him.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
On Tuesday morning, dozens queued up, sometimes wrapping around the shop’s interior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Cyndi Lauper song ended and Og queued up another dance track—“James Brown Is Dead” by L.A.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Some of the world's most consequential companies are queuing up for CoreWeave's infrastructure and other AI services.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
"Now they have turned against us," he told the BBC at the Burundian embassy in Nairobi where many have been queuing this week for documents to allow them to travel back home.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"I know we're supposed to love queuing, but it was extreme queuing."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
That led to 20 percent fewer vessels and a 17 percent drop in tonnage, not to mention longer lines of ships queuing up.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
People were queuing to dish the dirt on Dumbledore anyway.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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