cued

past tense of cue

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cued
Verb
  • Nine of the 10 largest individual and family donors in CNBC’s overall top 20 groups are Republican-aligned, accounting for 86 cents of every dollar contributed by the top 10, according to CNBC’s analysis of FEC records.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Just as leap years keep our calendars in alignment with Earth’s orbit around the Sun, leap seconds have kept our timekeeping aligned with Earth’s daily rotation.
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Multiple copies of Howl, Kaddish, and assembled collections of complete verse lined (and still line) my bookshelves.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • And in the bottom of the seventh, Yoshida led off with a single, Trevor Story walked, Ceddanne Rafaela, pinch-hitting for Marcelo Mayer, lined a ball past the outstretched glove arm of first baseman Keith, but far inside the right-field line for a two-run single.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Back then there were no refrigerators — there were iceboxes, and glasses were placed upside down inside them to cool before being filled with ice cream.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Health authorities in Kenya have placed the country's border points on high alert and are monitoring for possible additional cases.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Once emplaced, a ground sensor is also fixed to the set location.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • Defense attorney Johnson had filed an election for the jury to assess punishment, but Jones refused to sign it, according to Sorrells.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Hundreds of students filed out of class at Lincoln Park High School on Thursday afternoon.
    — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 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 11 Oct. 2026.

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