as in indication
a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation)
taking a cue from nature, scientists are developing safe and effective insecticides using insect hormones
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Recent Examples of cue
Heather Bien, The Spruce, 5 Jan. 2026
Right on cue, a new Federal Reserve chairman is expected to be selected in the coming days.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Nov. 2025
Somewhere around the seventh inning, the gaggle of small children in the house conspired, without adult aid or input, to turn off the lights in a bedroom, plug in a strobe light, cue up a trance song on the speaker, and begin to mosh.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Take a cue from your own personal style and make the hallway fit in with your overall design vibe.
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End the Night with a Classic After dinner, cue up A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for a viewing that will take everyone straight back to childhood.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for cue
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And Ferguson can line up across the formation and create downfield separation.—
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Failure to line up financing would prevent Saks from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which would give the company a chance to reorganize and potentially find a buyer willing to take on its business as a going concern.—
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Remodels are coming for all 600 Sam’s Club locations and customers will no longer have to queue in busy and crowded checkout areas.—
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Three days a week, locals queue up in front of the building, sometimes waiting over an hour, to receive free groceries.—
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Because the dopants are earth-abundant, the synthesis uses conventional solid-state processing, and no inert atmosphere is required, the approach aligns well with existing gigafactory infrastructure.—
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Both Fischer and Lutron call out lighting systems and apps that change lighting based on pre-programmed modes and even automatically transition to align with circadian cycles.—
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And now there’s the technology to fully sequence someone's DNA, and understand modifications to that DNA, called epigenetics.—
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These researchers are taking part in the first international field expedition of Project Psyche, whose goal is to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of moths and butterflies in Europe.—
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“Cue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cue. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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