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May 5, 2016 · A mysterious telecommunications company gives away free phones, and surveillance — and disappearances — begin. Newspapers are replaced by a single paper called The Truth. Decrees and laws rain down...
Queue most often refers to a succession of things, such as people waiting in a line. The words cue and queue are pronounced the same, but usually have different meanings. Cue (used as a noun) most often refers to a hint, or to a signal given to a performer (‘I forgot my line, and had to be given a cue from the stage manager’).
Sep 15, 2022 · The Queue passes Lambeth Palace, the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England, of which the British monarch is Supreme Governor.
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The Queue ( Arabic: الطابور, romanized : Al-Tabuur) is a 2013 satire novel by Basma Abdel Aziz. It was first published in English in 2016. The novel explores totalitarianism and bureaucracy through the lens of a fictional Middle Eastern state and the people under its control. Plot.
- 224 (Kindle edition)
- Basma Abdel Aziz
- 2013
- Dar Al-Tanweer (Arabic); Melville House Publishing (English)
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The Queue is a 1983 novel by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, first published in France in 1985 after being banned in the USSR, and in English by Readers International in 1988. It has been described as "a bizarrely funny saga of a quintessential Russian institution, the interminably long line."
- 280
- Vladimir Sorokin
- 1983
- Fiction novel
a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something, or a lot of people who want something: Are you in the queue for tickets? There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road. If you want tickets you'll have to join the queue. disapproving It makes me mad when someone jumps the queue (= goes straight to the front).
18 September 2022. Reuters. There were huge queues along the banks of the River Thames, where people waited to pay their respects to the Queen. People were told not to set off to see the...
