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queue

[kyoo] / kju /


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Amit Yair, 77, was blunter as he waited in a long queue to order coffee.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

And every week, as the cafe's struggle becomes known, the queue for coffee gets longer.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

He noted that there is “not one electron” of always-on power, sometimes referred to as baseload, in the California Independent System Operator’s interconnection queue.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

In the microbiology lab, she prepares the stacks of samples piling up in the queue for examination.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Another division issued forth, and we all progressed forward by some forty feet in our queue.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

People posted on social media, reporting "crazy queues" for the shuttle bus and blue flashing lights on the main road outside the stadium.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Long queues of people could be seen evacuating towns on foot, by motorbike and car, some piled into the back of pickup trucks.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

The situation had eased at the end of July, but queues and local shortages of some fuel types have reemerged in Moscow in recent days.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Tickets went on sale Tuesday and were going briskly, with digital wait times reported of more than four hours in queues with as many as 13,000 guests.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 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

Fans queued at New Street station to have their photo taken with the mechanical Ozzy the bull statue, which has been specially dressed up for Ozzy Day, receiving a free commemorative Polaroid.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Young people draped in Indian flags queued for food, painted placards and posed for photographs, while rows of police and paramilitary personnel sealed every road to parliament around them.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Customers queued in long lines to snap up a special-edition Harry Potter collection last year, for example.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

The islands' roughly 200,000 inhabitants have queued at petrol stations in recent days and thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

As I queued up, people kept glancing at me.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

"Right now there are about 15 tractors queuing to fill up," Jean-Pierre Robert, who manages a lakeside hotel, told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Those queuing to meet her included a starstruck 21-year-old man clutching a 1980s vinyl album.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

However, compared to a premium of 38%, these are negligible and without unforeseen obstacles, hedge funds and proprietary trading desks will be queuing up to put the trade on.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Andrei was queuing for the first time, with his wife Yekaterina.

From BBC Jul. 8, 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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