cued

verb

past tense of cue
as in aligned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cued
  1. aligned
  2. lined
  3. placed
  4. emplaced
  5. filed
  6. sequenced
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  • Jeffco leaders say their policy is aligned with Colorado law.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Controlled lunges Step forward and lower your back knee toward the floor over three seconds, keeping your rib cage aligned over your pelvis and your forward knee tracking in line with your foot.
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of aligned
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  • 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
Definition of lined
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  • One officer has been placed on administrative leave while an internal investigation continues.
    — Marissa Armas, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, found the works in an apartment in Parma; nine Moldovan nationals have since been placed under investigation.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of placed
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  • 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
Definition of emplaced
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  • The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Hyde Lane, the corporate entity for Demon Hunter, against Netflix, Netflix Studios and concert promoter AEG Presents.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Denver has 160 lawyers The two lawsuits were filed by Jessica Calderon, a former Denver city employee, and Everett Martinez, a current Denver city employee, who separately allege wrongful treatment and retaliation by the city.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of filed
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  • 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
Definition of sequenced
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