cued

verb

past tense of cue
as in aligned

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  1. aligned
  2. lined
  3. placed
  4. emplaced
  5. filed
  6. sequenced
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  • Albesa said on Thursday that Puig continues to evaluate M&A opportunities that are aligned with its long-term strategy.
    — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 30 July 2026
  • The company stated that costs of care for its Medicare Advantage plans aligned with expectations, despite an industry-wide struggle with rising medical expenses.
    — Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 29 July 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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  • The statement did not explicitly reject or endorse the constitutional amendment, which Republican lawmakers placed on the ballot.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
  • Another criminalist testified earlier in the multi-day probable cause hearing that several Clorox-type wipes covered in brown stains were found in an inner trash bag placed inside the outer bag.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026
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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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  • Immediately after the federal government issued its final rule change on July 10, environmental groups sued, with cases filed in both San Francisco and Seattle federal courts.
    — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
  • But preliminary test results from that handgun appear to exclude it as the gun responsible for the deaths, police said in the court document, a probable cause statement filed Wednesday.
    — Joe Kottke, NBC news, 31 July 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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“Cued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cued. Accessed 31 Jul. 2026.

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