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Recent Examples of queue
Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
To save time, guests can buy passes for expedited queues, known as Lightning Lanes.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
The 75-year-old, along with dozens of others experiencing homelessness, queued for a hot meal provided by the nonprofit One World One Heart.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Macron confirmed that the Mona Lisa, now displayed behind protective glass and often subject to overcrowded and noisy queues of visitors, will be moved to a specially dedicated room.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
To save time, guests can buy passes for expedited queues, known as Lightning Lanes.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
Fans queued at the merchandise trucks to get their piece of memorabilia from Wembanyama’s first NBA game in France.
—Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
The 75-year-old, along with dozens of others experiencing homelessness, queued for a hot meal provided by the nonprofit One World One Heart.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queue
Noun
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In the meantime, the operator said it’s making progress on its remediation plan, including analysis of other areas and additional in-line inspections.—
Joe Sutton,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2023
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The goal of this relationship is to save you time, trouble, and money down the line.—
Brady Slack,
Forbes,
10 Feb. 2023
Verb
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This approach provides a safety net, ensuring that there are potential buyers lined up should the initial deal fall through due to the home's condition.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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Lively’s got four movies lined up over the next few years.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And right beside the win-loss column — subject to your opinion of the person running the operation — there’s a skyscraper of either explanations or excuses.—
Brian Hamilton,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Make a daily to-do list of all of your responsibilities — one column for work, one for your baby.—
Harriette Cole,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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For the other man, meanwhile, those initially disorientating dreams cue a release from the strictures of masculine expectations and self-image, demonstrated through his increasingly liberated performances in a local choir.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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Throughout the 2010s, celebrities ran amok with political symbolism that cued to pro-Blackness and radical ideas.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The skirt also flowed behind Palmer to create a slight effect of a small train.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
18 Feb. 2025
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Known as the Rockaway Beach Branch (or Queens Boulevard Line) of the Long Island Rail Road, this right-of-way could facilitate the expansion of the subway’s M train.—
Paul Dreyer,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2025
Verb
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In a tort claim filed Jan. 14, two Boise residents who live in a house near Willow Lane Park decried the city’s 2017 conversion of the park’s tennis courts into six pickleball courts.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Feb. 2025
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But as questions swirled around the February 2022 allegations of mishandling of records by Trump, Bloomberg News reporter Jason Leopold filed a FOIA request for six categories of documents.—
Jack Date,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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No, Trump is gonna get big-dogged at the big game this weekend by Taylor Swift, First Lady of WAGs, who will be rolling up to the Super Bowl for the second year in a row to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce, who is playing in his third Super Bowl in a row with the Kansas City Chiefs.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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Clark was the best of the bunch, opening with a birdie and adding four in a row starting on No. 8 on a day win in which 24 players shot 68 or better before play was suspended by darkness.—
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7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Whole genome sequencing confirmed the finding of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype D1.1.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
5 Feb. 2025
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And some have questioned whether preventive genome sequencing actually benefits people’s health.—
Dana G. Smith,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Queue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queue. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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