line up

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Recent Examples of line up Extremely scary and prepare to line up. Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025 This year’s Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Festival line up included Prince Harry and Meghan, actress Sophia Bush and NBC’s Carson Daly. Rachel Hale, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025 Sunlight pours through the big windows at Night Swim, where guests line up at the counter for a fresh roast or specialty drink and browse shelves stocked with coffee bags and merch. Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025 But thanks to a clever design feature of the market rules for tickets, on a typical day, most people don’t line up until around eight or nine in the morning. Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for line up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for line up
Verb
  • Bessent, who specialized in foreign exchange in a decades-long hedge fund career, organized a $20 billion foreign-exchange swap with Argentina’s central bank earlier this month — an unusual structure that bypassed the US Federal Reserve, which is typically the lead party in such arrangements.
    Daniel Flatley, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Alani organized a letter signed by more than 300 former IDS staffers asking for the IU Student Publications Alumni Board to be included in conversations about the IDS's future.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The day before, for instance, the organization received 15 calls to register for the pantry.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Our real estate data comes from public records that have been registered and digitized by local county offices.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The coach will be grouped with one contributor and three seniors candidates.
    Staff, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • For the annual Mansion in May show house, design firm Toledo Geller divided a long garden-level room with a pair of back-to-back sofas, grouping small card tables for tournaments on one side and a single pedestal table for cozier game nights on the other.
    Catherine Hong, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If the stars align, Scheifele will pass Hawerchuk’s points total on the outdoor ice at Princess Auto Stadium next season, where Hawerchuk put on a show at the 2016 Heritage Classic against Edmonton.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On foreign policy, particularly regarding the Israel–Hamas conflict, Quinnipiac reported that 41 percent of voters said Mamdani’s stance aligns most closely with their own, versus 26 percent for Cuomo and 13 percent for Sliwa.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Laurie's experience parallels that of a new character, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell).
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The series does not parallel Kirk’s murder beyond its general plot line of identifying politically motivated attacks on specific targets.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some are passing the cost on to eaters, tacking a few extra dollars onto the price of dishes when ordered for delivery—but as the economy hurtles toward a possible recession, $31 for spaghetti in a cardboard box starts to seem like a bad idea too.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Families should order new copies of important documents if the original documents are lost, Velasquez said.
    Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This one has a subtle geometric pattern in a neutral shade that will match any patio setup.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
  • No one won the jackpot on Monday, but three tickets in New York matched five numbers to win $1 million each.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There, McIlroy was seen posing for photos with several of his trophies arranged on the basalt rocks, paying tribute to a season that many consider his most meaningful of all time.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Victoria Goodwin was sentenced to prison in May for arranging the plot with a Florida inmate.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Line up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/line%20up. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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