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Recent Examples of queue
Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
The technologies already implemented span a spectrum from predictive models that calculate simple risk scores to agentic AI that promises autonomous decision-making—enabling systems to titrate a patient’s oxygen flow or reprioritize an ER triage queue with little human input.
—Hilke Schellmann, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Thanks to the CoComelon YouTube channel, parents can queue up educational songs about everything from how to navigate all of life’s firsts to positive eating habits.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
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Noun
An orderly queue of penguins, a waving squirrel, and the fight over a fish dinner.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
The technologies already implemented span a spectrum from predictive models that calculate simple risk scores to agentic AI that promises autonomous decision-making—enabling systems to titrate a patient’s oxygen flow or reprioritize an ER triage queue with little human input.
—Hilke Schellmann, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
Verb
Assistant Planner Sophia Depew said the project includes dual drive-thru lanes that can queue up to 26 vehicles, a walk-up window, and three parking spaces.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Thanks to the CoComelon YouTube channel, parents can queue up educational songs about everything from how to navigate all of life’s firsts to positive eating habits.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queue
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In this case though, thousands of corporations, including Costco, have preemptively sued the US government in an effort to secure their stake in a refund without having to put their reputation on the line as Schwartz and Woldenberg have.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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He’s made no official announcements yet, and the person who picked up a Friday call to his campaign phone line did not answer a question about whether any decisions had been made.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
21 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Temple crowds at midnight in Hong Kong Incense smoke wafted into the air at a temple in Hong Kong where people line up every year to make wishes for the new year at midnight.—
Ken Moritsugu,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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Success didn’t really line up with not chasing.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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This column should be required reading for all 535 members of our Congress, but especially for the six that represent our state.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 Feb. 2026
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Posing with Marty Supreme star Gwyneth Paltrow at the 2026 Santa Barbara Film Festival, Hudson tapped into her boho glam roots wearing a sheer pink Louis Vuitton slip column dress that was covered in intricate floral beading.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
16 Feb. 2026
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When the film opens, Minnie and Callie are wrapping their final day as high school juniors in the early summer of 2002 (cue the Michelle Branch soundtrack, perfect).—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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Someone cue the disco tunes, because Serena Williams is ready to boogie.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
3 Feb. 2026
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The neighborhood/area A seven minute stroll from the Greenwich train station and the shopping of Greenwich Avenue beyond, this is not a country hotel.—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Feb. 2026
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Japanese Americans were sent home with just a train ticket and $25 each.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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It was eventually consolidated with similar cases filed by 12 states and Learning Resources, an educational supply company.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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This latest news comes just a few weeks after Mayweather filed a lawsuit against Showtime Networks and the former president of Showtime Sports, accusing the company of helping facilitate a fraud scheme that deprived him of roughly $340 million in earnings.—
Matt Schubert,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The row was reminiscent of an earlier accusation of antisemitism leveled by Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, against President Emmanuel Macron.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Over the past week, a 30-year-old TikTok personality with a famous actor beau showed up in an awful lot of front rows.—
Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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While many resources and efforts were made to sequence DNA through the Human Genome Project, sequencing RNA and its many modifications remains a challenging task.—
Marlene Belfort,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2026
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Judgment, sequencing, and context—long considered unscalable—can now be captured and shared.—
John Sviokla,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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