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Discover LudwigThe phrase "take cues" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase is typically used when one is paying attention to and learning from the behavior of someone or something else. For example, you could say, "The young dancer took cues from the experienced instructor to learn the difficult steps."
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People take cues from the environment.
The band's slinky, throbbing songs take cues from disparate sources, including house, cabaret and tango.
These memoirs take cues from prose poems and lyrical essays, like those in Claudia Rankine's "Citizen".
They were able to take cues from the background and compensate for the very unnatural illumination.
Even so, he said, professional buyers could take cues from the online shoppers.
Pentagon officials should take cues from the president by disgorging EADS's tanker bid of illegal subsidies.
"Lighting designers here — they consider it an insult to take cues," Mr. Frantz said.
After all, should we take cues from the star of "Mission: Impossible"?
The markets often take cues from Wall Street, but United States exchanges were closed for Labor Day.
A psychologist in Jenkintown, Pa., Dr. Gershenfeld said that she warns people: Your children will take cues from you.
These top labels take cues from Mother Nature: silhouettes drape and flow, embellishments are subtle, and form follows function.
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