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segue

[say-gway, seg-way] / ˈseɪ gweɪ, ˈsɛg weɪ /


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Belafonte “often visited Janet Kennedy’s couch in the late afternoon, when their sessions could segue easily into cocktails and dinner” at the Kennedys’ elegant apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

Passionately defending cinema on the big screen and then waiting for the next suggested movie to segue into our queue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Seeing this as the perfect segue, I told him I, too, was having a baby except I wasn’t keeping mine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Their easy give-and-take, comic timing, and ability to segue into heart-wrenching moments, like Peeta’s confession of love for me, have made them a huge success with the audience.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Most of those founders eventually segued to the newer Friends of Big Bear Valley in the 2010s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

Elkhanah Pulitzer’s direction segued smoothly from the real to the visionary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 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

As I held the guitar over my head, the metallic ringing segued into a guitar power chord that echoed throughout the cave.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

“EPiC” follows Presley as he blazes through classics including “Little Sister,” slyly asserting his influence in rock by segueing into the Beatles’ “Get Back.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 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

He came on stage strumming an acoustic guitar and playing the exquisite melody of The Wind, before segueing to one of his most beloved songs, Moonshadow.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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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