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queue

[kyoo] / kju /


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He waited about two hours in the cashier's queue, with customers crowded inside but few staff working.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

It often starts with helping one visitor take a picture and ends with a long queue.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

Among those hoping to secure some anniversary cards is 21-year-old Grace Orton, who said she was willing to queue up to get her hands on them.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

You are sealed into one of the thirty-two capsules with the strangers who were next to you in the queue, and when they close the doors, the sound of the city is cut off.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

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

Early in the day, long queues formed outside the small St Luka church, as people waited to go in and pay their respects to the coffin.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

The issues come after a major supply outage in July saw passengers face long queues for toilets at the West Sussex airport, with restaurants and bars also closing.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

In the Iranian capital, long queues formed at petrol stations after authorities said fuel quotas would be reviewed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Every time I turned my e-mail program on, I faced hundreds of messages from kids, students, former students, parents, and teachers stacked in vast queues; it took hours just to download the mail.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

I had a thousand things queued up behind my lips.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

"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

He said there were between 100 and 150 people queuing to get to the top.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

He sleeps with his head twisted in his hands, and the mosquitoes are queuing up for his blood.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak




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