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Recent Examples of queue
Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2025
From here, baking in the heat, general admission fans can watch elite guests queue for private hot laps, while VIP ticket holders dine at exclusive cantinas and hospitality areas.
—Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
The Mortuary More than 30,000 people will queue up to head through The Mortuary, one of the nation’s most frightening haunted houses.
—Jenny Adams, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The month-long blockade by the JNIM armed group has set off long queues at petrol stations in Bamako and other major cities, grinding economic activity to a halt.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2025
From here, baking in the heat, general admission fans can watch elite guests queue for private hot laps, while VIP ticket holders dine at exclusive cantinas and hospitality areas.
—Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
Riders will queue up in an expansive (and thankfully shady) warehouse structure that resembles garages seen in the films.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
The Mortuary More than 30,000 people will queue up to head through The Mortuary, one of the nation’s most frightening haunted houses.
—Jenny Adams, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queue
Noun
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Straight line winds can blow down trees, power lines, and damage mobile homes and other buildings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Nov. 2025
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Some incredible lines come out of people’s mouths, and then the clouds gather again.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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When those pieces line up, conservation and development can move together rather than compete.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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And by the time Love motioned for Doubs to line up outside running back Emanuel Wilson instead of inside him on the right side of the formation, there were two seconds left.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.—
Miami Herald Staff Reports,
Miami Herald,
9 Nov. 2025
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This loss is in Frank’s column, to be fair.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Somewhere around the seventh inning, the gaggle of small children in the house conspired, without adult aid or input, to turn off the lights in a bedroom, plug in a strobe light, cue up a trance song on the speaker, and begin to mosh.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Rather than nagging or framing missteps as failures, create initiation rituals that cue the brain to shift into work mode.—
Ana Homayoun,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The journalists who rushed to the scene managed to jot down the names of about a dozen—the VIPs (there were three members of parliament on the train that day, which was a factor in the disaster) and a couple of servants.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Desperate to help her, Katie’s exhausted parents send her to a recovery centre, forcing her and her estranged mother, Tami to board a long-distance train bound for Washington.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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At a time when the Mavericks need as much good will, or PR, as possible, filing a lawsuit against the Dallas Stars is petty, small and mean.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Nov. 2025
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Since then, Shashou and Effron have been iterating alongside what has become a team of 50 robotics engineers on the manicure system, which can remove nail polish; deliver cuticle care; file nails — without blades — and impart colored polish and a top coat to finish.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Close behind this mini-murderer’s row of female artists with four nods is Zach Top, a neotraditionalist who’s found favor across basically all country quadrants.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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The teen also sat front row at the Ashley Williams show during London Fashion Week in September.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
Verb
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And now there’s the technology to fully sequence someone's DNA, and understand modifications to that DNA, called epigenetics.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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These researchers are taking part in the first international field expedition of Project Psyche, whose goal is to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of moths and butterflies in Europe.—
Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Queue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queue. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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