queue
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Once on the other side of the queue, people can buy up to six tickets per transaction after paying a deposit.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He waited about two hours in the cashier's queue, with customers crowded inside but few staff working.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The company has said it replaced thousands of poles in Texas and New Mexico in 2024 and is current with its replacement queue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
There was a small queue of homeless applicants, some of whom were from overseas.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Iaided in the pounding of boiled clothes; I translated dull tags; I daily ran my fingers through Mr. Sharpe’s hair, greasing it and feeding his graying queue into a bag.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Long online queues formed for the first tranche of tickets released on July 1, which were snapped up within hours.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Tickets for the festival typically sell out in less than an hour, with thousands of fans joining online queues to fight for their place.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Snaking queues formed at the departure halls in Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Monday as stranded passengers sought refunds and tried to get updates on when they would be able to fly.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Nora Molloy knows my mother from the queues at the St.Vincent de Paul Society.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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Application fees will also rise 20-fold from Thursday and at one immigration office in central Tokyo visited by AFP this week hundreds of people queued, hoping to wrap up procedures before the price spike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
On Tuesday morning, dozens queued up, sometimes wrapping around the shop’s interior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Which makes the moment when we still have to ask ourselves what sounds good feel increasingly precious: a little unoptimized space before something has been recommended, queued or dropped into a cart for us.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Russian capital braced Wednesday for a possible fresh wave of fuel shortages as drivers queued nervously to fill up tanks after recent Ukrainian strikes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
As I queued up, people kept glancing at me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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"This new virtual queuing approach has been designed in response to that feedback."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
As they were making their way to the top, he said a woman who was queuing "had a dig" and said "she'd been queuing for 40 minutes".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Munday said he believed queuing was "Snowdon specific" due to how popular it is.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the alleys, fifteen-year-old boys are making their way toward mine elevators, queuing up with their helmets and lamps outside the gates.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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