chicane
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Leclerc forced Hamilton into the gravel at the first chicane at Monza on Sunday, and then crashed two laps later.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
He was arguably too aggressive with Lewis Hamilton at the first chicane on the first lap, forcing his team-mate into the gravel and dropping him to 10th, and crashed out a lap later.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The second sector - of which Pouhon is the highlight - is used for recharging so the battery is full again for the long run from Stavelot to the final chicane.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Also the save from him earlier on in the weekend down to the chicane was awesome.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Yet, as no compensation was rendered for the enormous expenditure incurred, it can be looked upon as little better than confiscation effected by chicane and tyranny.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
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
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
The very possibility of public agency, by which such petitions could authentically arrive at Parliament, has been evaded and chicaned away.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
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
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
A Judge that goes upon chicaning is to be punished more severely than a highway Robber.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle
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
Whereby come Dissident ejected Priests; unconquerable Martyrs according to some, incurable chicaning Traitors according to others.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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
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