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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

“They were not allowed in that section of the facility,” he said, “and eventually we’ll segue them back in.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

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

The next question is, “What department are you in?” followed by, “How long have you worked here?”— from which it’s an obvious segue to the business at hand.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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 the chuckles subsided, Biden segued back to his prepared remarks by saying, “All kidding aside.”

From Slate Dec. 11, 2024

My brain hummed along as one thought segued into another.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

“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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