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Recent Examples of queue
Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Remember the lines of people around the country queuing up to donate blood, before the grim realization that there would be no large-scale rescues from the smoking rubble in New York?
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
Check out the Disneyland Magic Key Buying Guide website for details on setting up a Disney account, payment information, pass upgrades, virtual queues, email alerts and making your first reservation.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Both openings made local news headlines as thousands queued for hours in a bid to get regional exclusives and rare Labubu drops.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Remember the lines of people around the country queuing up to donate blood, before the grim realization that there would be no large-scale rescues from the smoking rubble in New York?
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
The future corridor will include a new median, median and curbside bus lanes, queue jumps at select intersections, new sidewalks, crosswalks and bike facilities.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
Check out the Disneyland Magic Key Buying Guide website for details on setting up a Disney account, payment information, pass upgrades, virtual queues, email alerts and making your first reservation.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queue
Noun
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Also on Sunday, Sturm scratched second line center Casey Mittelstadt, moving Pavel Zacha to center and re-inserting Khusnutdinov back into the lineup and onto the second line.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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But the problem right away was the Colts’ O-line just being too good.—
Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Extremely scary and prepare to line up.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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This year’s Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Festival line up included Prince Harry and Meghan, actress Sophia Bush and NBC’s Carson Daly.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The structure itself is composed of two intersecting, circular forms, each 36 m (118 ft) wide, and elevated on slender steel columns.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Oct. 2025
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New England improved to 5-2 on the year and are one up in the win column over the Buffalo Bills for the lead in the AFC East.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In other hands, this would cue a standard disease-of-the-week weepie, but Coixet keeps the tone lightly wistful and wise, and trains her attention ever more minutely on Rohrwacher, who along with her character, seems to blossom gradually under this steady gaze.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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So, cue the sound of sizzling beef tallow and check out what might be in store.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Look for the romantic wooden train that has run between Sollér and Palma since the 1910s.—
Emilio Parra Doiztua,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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That shutdown was blamed on a network connectivity problem that prevented controllers from seeing train locations on the tracks, which made safe operation of the system impossible.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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No, that one was an antitrust suit filed by Biden’s Department of Justice.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2025
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Last year, Porsche’s filed patent for a six-stroke engine, hinting at a shift from traditional four-stroke designs, signaling a potential major evolution in combustion engine technology.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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During Wicked night, Timothy and her mom, Gina, were cheering them both on from the front row of the ballroom.—
Colleen Kratofil,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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But the Panthers have won three games in a row for the first time since 2021 and are going to have a chance with Dalton.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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PacBio says a single Revio can sequence about four entire human genomes in a 24-hour period for less than $1,000 per genome.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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After it was verified using DNA sequencing that the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels had the last male great auk, researchers tested the Cincinnati specimen.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Queue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queue. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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