cued

Definition of cuednext
past tense of cue

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cued
Verb
  • The shoes aligned with the metallic shine of her lime green Versace dress, which featured safety pins connecting the top and skirt portions.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the software tool accounts for both the Moon’s weaker gravity and its journey through space to keep its clock perfectly aligned with Earth’s.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Wells lined a ball that landed just fair down the right-field line.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Andrew Benintendi lined a fourth-inning sweeper from Ryan Bergert down the right-field line.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He was placed in FBI custody after being treated for a gunshot wound to the arm and abdomen.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Its last gasp was in 2009, when a Reformist president who had clearly won the election was placed under house arrest instead of sworn into office.
    Karl Vick, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The order affects several thousand engineers, scientists and technicians across every NASA center, and strips away long-standing union rights that were emplaced to protect more than half the agency's workforce.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In addition to its proxy contest, Paramount has filed a lawsuit against WBD aimed at forcing transparency into how the WBD board of directors evaluated the competing Netflix and Paramount bids, along with its internal valuation of the assets involved.
    Corey Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Baldoni has maintained his innocence and filed his own $400 million lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds, claiming civil extortion, defamation, breach of contract, and invasion of privacy.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • About 1 million people globally have sequenced their genomes, and realistically about 1 billion people need to sequence their genomes for models to function more meaningfully.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2025
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“Cued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cued. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.

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