chicane
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Shortly afterwards, a virtual safety car was called when Lance Stroll's Aston Martin broke down at the first chicane and Antonelli's side of the garage decided to risk a stop for fresh tyres.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The layout of the circuit means that the batteries are used up on the long run from the first corner, La Source, to the Les Combes chicane.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Could have fought for Q3 but the Nouvelle chicane crash rather ruined the Audi driver's weekend.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Norris had been fourth quickest on the first runs in the final session, but a mistake into the chicane on the harbour on his final run dropped him down.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Rodman’s methods were those of chicane, but rightly or wrongly he believed that he could read the human document.
From The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck
Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I had heard enough to tell me I had been chicaned.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
He had tried his best to get rid of them, advanced the rent, implored, chicaned, but all in vain.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Jules Lermina
All saw, and too clearly, that we had been chicaned; and that the wretched curs who had “sold” us, were as completely beyond our reach, as if twenty miles lay between us and them!
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
Chmielnicki, now doubly hateful to the Poles as being both a royalist and a Cossack, was again maltreated and chicaned, and only escaped from gaol by bribing his gaolers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
The man who goes to law surrenders his liberty of action and becomes the sport of chicaning lawyers and hair-splitting judges.
From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by William Westall
Whereby come Dissident ejected Priests; unconquerable Martyrs according to some, incurable chicaning Traitors according to others.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
But the poor girl had no thought of so chicaning away life; her mind was fixed on far other subjects.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson