chute
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When a claw lifts a plushie and drops it inches from the chute, the brain doesn’t register a failure, Ludvig said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Also, it’s best to go for something that’s close to the exit chute, in case the claw drops it prematurely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
General waste for Jackie's flat is sent down a chute into a large container in the bin store at one corner of the block.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Whitney, below the notorious “final 400” stretch, a dangerously steep chute along the route that is particularly challenging to navigate in the winter months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Starry gropes after the material that's been yanked from her hands, but it falls out of reach and the whole quilt tumbles down the chute.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
A survey where people are cattle chuted to these options: open the square and this, open the square and this, open the square and this.
From Slate ● May 25, 2021
Once we were chuted up, we had to stay on our feet because it would be impossible to get back up without help.
From Time Magazine Archive
News reports first indicated that a frogman had chuted into the ocean in a quick look for any survivors.
From Time Magazine Archive
We chuted up and pulled the adjustment straps down good and tight because we knew we were so loaded that we were going to get one hell of an opening shock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The parts, the new power plant and a few other odds and ends were chuted into a neat pile on the ship.
From The Repairman by Harry Harrison
The encircling mountains are a kind of flood-making machine, chuting rain down arroyos and canyons for killer floods, most memorably in 1914, 1934 and 1938.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
A third man will level off the sand and stone in the measuring hopper and help in the chuting.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
When chuting is not practicable it will pay often to shovel the stone into buckets handled by a stiff-leg derrick rather than to unload it onto the bank.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
