Etymology Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.
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To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.
Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai."2009 March 10, Rosie DiManno, “Murder reduced to infantile online postings”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2009:
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I don't even know how you would start to do the cleanup work even though it's very much necessary. So then that also leads me to be like, are there people that we could talk to within the movement that could create tools or automations or how are those even informed in the first place? I mean, just to segue slightly, there's been a lot of conversation about Wikimania, about AI in general in varying different ways, and that's more or less what this is, is AI being like, a woman with a microphone is an artist or an entertainer, and so how do we retrain or do the cleanup of this AI to be more accurate?2024, Kira Wisniewski, Making structured data more accessible:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
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Of a disc jockey To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.
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Etymology Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.