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cue in

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  1. Give information or instructions, for example, She said she'd cue us in on their summer plans. This verbal use of the noun cue in the sense of “guiding suggestion” dates from the 1920s.

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Washington says that might be his favorite cue in the whole movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

Depending on what researchers said to them, participants in the study would either smile or frown on cue in certain phases of sleep.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023

The team are also developing a new version of the task that allows multistage decision-making through a second cue in addition to the sound.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023

Yeah… There's one cue in the first episode that is called "The Galaxy Song," and it was a cue that I introduced my music supervisor to and she fell in love with it.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2022

I laugh as she holds up the pool cue in victory like at the end of The Breakfast Club, smiling back at me before going inside room 302.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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