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Recent Examples of queue
ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2025
Season two of With Love, Meghan has already been filmed and will hit Netflix queues this fall.
—Meredith Kile, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Despite soaring trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies, American consumers are queuing overnight at Pop Mart stores to buy limited numbers of collectible dolls from the company.
—Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The dispatcher puts each event into a queue and processes them one by one.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2025
Season two of With Love, Meghan has already been filmed and will hit Netflix queues this fall.
—Meredith Kile, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
Under Purslow and Street, regeneration of Witton station included a new tunnel under the railway, preventing queuing on the main road.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Despite soaring trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies, American consumers are queuing overnight at Pop Mart stores to buy limited numbers of collectible dolls from the company.
—Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queue
Noun
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In the meantime, the operator said it’s making progress on its remediation plan, including analysis of other areas and additional in-line inspections.—
Joe Sutton,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2023
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The goal of this relationship is to save you time, trouble, and money down the line.—
Brady Slack,
Forbes,
10 Feb. 2023
Verb
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Alzheimer’s patient advocates oppose HHS cuts A group from the Alzheimer’s Association of America lined up early outside the House Appropriations Committee meeting room.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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On top of playing each of their divisional rivals twice as usual, there are many great out-of-division and out-of-conference games lined up.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
9 May 2025
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If the media environment is fragmented, so, too, is the Democratic resistance itself: split, as Kang wrote in this column, in February, among incompatible strategic impulses; severed from a discredited Party establishment but uncertain where to go next; fundamentally leaderless.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
Verb
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Then, at 12:58, our final player in the drama is cued up.—
John Roy,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
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The producers cue up flashbacks to Kenya’s 2018 domestic violence PSA, reminding us that for all the glam and drama, these women are real — and relatable.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
27 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Witnesses said there had been a crowd of people trying to maneuver around the train that night after a performance at the nearby Rady Shell venue.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2025
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Numerous outlets were quick to knock down Jones’ cocaine claim, noting press was aboard the train where the footage was shot.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
Verb
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Federal prosecutors said those clients were unaware that Christina Moles, now 50, had falsified their returns, which were filed between 2015 and 2021.—
Douglas Walker,
USA Today,
8 May 2025
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Libby filed her lawsuit against Fecteau to have the censure overturned on March 11.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Here’s how 40 executives voted For the second year in a row, The Athletic canvassed 40 executives across baseball to build our front office rankings.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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With summer almost here, he’s devastated that his girls want to attend sleepaway camp for the second year in a row.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
14 May 2025
Verb
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At McGill, Avila-Cervantes performed the genomic sequencing that ultimately revealed big differences between the island populations and mainland counterparts.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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The researchers compared participants’ heart rates, blood pressure and spleen sizes and sequenced their genomes — a detailed genetic blueprint — from blood samples.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 May 2025
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“Queue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queue. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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