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segue

[sey-gwey, seg-wey] / ˈseɪ gweɪ, ˈsɛg weɪ /


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“If you look at your outfit and you say to yourself, ‘Oh, this will segue nicely to a sports bar, it's probably not the right outfit for the office.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Turning from one set of images to the other makes for a haunting memento mori—and also serves as an elegant and affecting segue to Ms. Emin’s recent paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Another important interlude is the segue of “American Skin” into “Long Walk Home.”

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

Rosalía used this as a perfect segue into her song La Perla, supposedly about her former fiancé Rauw Alejandro - with lyrics about a "terrorista emocional" whose proudest achievement is his collection of bras.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

For Caesar, this is a natural place to segue into all the ways we did get hurt in the arena, from burns, to stings, to wounds.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

In a press conference soon after, he agreed that the hotel was “not a particularly secure building,” from which he segued into a pitch for his planned White House ballroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

But all that momentum for change stalled when, in 1917, the United States entered World War I and then segued to a postwar decade of speculative frenzy.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025

The show began with a new-agey wash of ocean sounds, that segued seamlessly into her 2024 single, Training Season.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

The chat started with a question about their worst dates then segued into Mr. Big asking what the two expect from a guy on a first date.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

My brain hummed along as one thought segued into another.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

The exhibition slips past the complications of World War II with just a few ephemeral examples before segueing into an accumulation of familiar pop-culture products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

However, the tonal mismatch of segueing from a story about a family member’s coma to a soda tasting is notable and leads one to ask: Why is JD Vance being so weird about Mountain Dew?

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024

She emerges to ear-splitting screams, in a floral-print dress and towering heels, smouldering through the achingly cool A&W, before segueing into the ethereal Young and Beautiful.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

Simply put, the culprit has been an ongoing health issue — two of them, really; one segueing into the other seamlessly to create a hellish month of inactivity.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2023

Snow was falling in earnest now—big silent petals drifting through the springtime woods, white bouquets segueing into snowy dark: a nightmarish topsy-turvy land, something from a story book.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt



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