cue
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But Thailand is among a band of neighbouring nations, sharing unavoidable border issues with Myanmar, which have used the polls as a cue to reset relations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
This was the cue for Milan's wingbacks to drop deep, increasing the distance United's full-backs had to cover to apply pressure.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The same is true if you’re standing on an uneven or soft surface: the body’s proprioception, or touch, cue is compromised.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
If you’d rather stay in and watch TV, you should cue up Amazon’s latest hit show, Sterling Point.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Plastic stars wait on the cold ceiling, watching the light switch, nervous, ready for the dark and their cue to glow.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Later, a DJ cued up Madonna’s “Into the Groove” and guests danced to songs by Prince and Michael Jackson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
At one point, Musk cued Cavanaugh with an awkward joke about how the work he’d found being done at the United States Institute of Peace was actually “the opposite of the title.”
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
What you put on your TV, what fast food restaurants you pass by on the way to work, we are constantly being cued.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
"The intelligence cued it up, we had sight of the whole area and we worked together. No other group of nations can do that in the world."
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
The word “no” is cued up on my tongue, but I swallow it down and tell her OK, and she cheers and yells for Celia.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
“You see the band watching him, you see him cuing them, you see the playfulness, the spontaneity, the fan reactions and his reactions to them,” Gausman continued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
For my money, the mark of any music book worth its salt is measured by the number of times I find myself cuing up another tune.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
Sometimes, I just take several deep inhales instead of cuing up the track.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2023
If not Amazon, you may “end up at another warehouse that is cuing its standards off of Amazon.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
Panel member Anuse finally came to the rescue with a cuing question and a long discussion ensued as to how SmurFFs were handled in the department and what happened to them.
From Wild Justice by Ruth M. Sprague
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