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Recent Examples of queues
Noun
The infrastructure supporting that agent, however, often relies on fragmented tools, manual investigations, specialist handoffs and tickets sitting in queues.—
Dilip Kumar,
Forbes.com,
6 Nov. 2026 Cheaper lift passes, shorter queues and fewer interruptions on the slopes also sweeten the deal, without compromising on skiing quality.—
Will Barker,
TheWeek,
27 Oct. 2026 During the day, long queues formed at polling stations in Serbia and in cities around the world.—
Jovana Gec,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Oct. 2026 The group also raised specific concerns about the project’s traffic analysis, driveway design, drive-through vehicle queues, noise study and assessment of potential health risks from the gas station.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
20 Oct. 2026 After an appearance at Nottingham—which fans felt had the look and feel of a royal appearance without being an official one—the pair are reportedly planning even more and taking queues for how official royals do things.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
20 Oct. 2026 With queues that wrap around the block, fans of Kim Kardashian can also visit Lane Crawford’s NikeSkims corner for a more breezy shopping experience.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
9 Oct. 2026 Contact centers had spent decades organizing high volumes of work into queues, tracking outcomes, and building a body of past interactions.—
David Pralong,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2026 Long queues of cars at fuel stations have been seen in major cities, while hits on Russia’s largest online retailers have increased pressure on the already strained wartime economy.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2026
The Sicilian marionettes were giant puppets, each around four feet high and controlled from above not by strings but iron rods.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
8 Nov. 2026
My Beloved‘s songs are mostly mid-tempo and melody-forward, with an acoustic underpinning and careful nuances enhanced with strings, keyboards and hand percussion.