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Recent Examples of queue
Ashley Hass,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
Join the ticket queue when the presale opens (the waiting room opens earlier for the presale).
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Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
24 June 2026
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Contestants were divided into two teams and asked to queue up.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Scheduling platforms let marketers queue posts weeks ahead, and artificial intelligence tools draft captions and reports.
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Ashley Hass,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
Join the ticket queue when the presale opens (the waiting room opens earlier for the presale).
—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
24 June 2026
Verb
Meanwhile, expatriate Hungarians in cities such as Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and London—a smaller contingent, deemed unreliable by virtue of their exposure to cosmopolitan societies—must queue up at diplomatic missions.
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Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Contestants were divided into two teams and asked to queue up.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queue
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More than 120 people got sick in a norovirus outbreak aboard a Princess Cruises ship, marking the cruise line’s third this year.
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Cage’s score is an abstract work based on the Japanese form of collective poetry known as renga, in which each poet attempts to write a line that is as distant as possible in meaning from the preceding line.
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Go where incentives already line up Instead of starting by attacking incumbents’ profit centers, successful disruptors look for segments where someone already benefits financially from lower costs and better outcomes.
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Sadly, travel plans didn’t line up.
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Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and wrote the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.
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United is a staple of the gossip column and so supporters must take any reporting about transfer targets linked to their club with a pinch of salt.
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Sporting a nasty black eye — cue the Spurs injury jokes — sustained in their 2-2 draw with Japan, his World Cup debut, Van Hecke completed his medical in Kansas City, where the Netherlands are based.
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Kiss sun damage goodbye, and cue the compliments.
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They are already used in technologies such as quantum computers, MRI scanners, fusion reactors, and maglev trains.
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And one of the state’s two railroads, the White Pass & Yukon Route, has recently been named one of the most beautiful train journeys in North America.
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In May, the EEOC filed a discrimination lawsuit against the New York Times alleging discrimination against a white male employee, which the Times has rejected as politically motivated.
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After Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles, several people filed a lawsuit in July 2025 alleging authorities questioned them without justification.
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Fans have been seen performing the row on an escalator in Boston.
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Inside, more than 120 humanoids stand in neat rows, each performing a specific task repeatedly, from sorting packages or changing diapers to scooping popcorn, guided by human trainers with handheld controllers next to them.
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University of Copenhagen paleoproteomics researcher Enrico Cappellini, also a co-author of the study, hopes the team will sequence proteins from other South African hominins, as well as species from Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia in east Africa.
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Future Society raised the stakes and hopped in a plane to capture real-life cloud microbes—sequencing them in-house to bring this ethereal, cloud-like scent to life.
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“Queue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queue. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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