chute
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The hiker was found 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 ● Oct. 8, 2026
The ground-level containers hide a chute to underground bins, one for recycling and one for general waste, that Hirra says are meant to be collected on different days so one doesn't contaminate the other.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
And that decision has to be made in a heartbeat at the end of a mile-long ice chute covered at speeds exceeding 90 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
PITTSBURGH—Lemon, a five-pound Chihuahua, waited at the starting line until her owner signaled “go,” then pulled a wheeled cart weighing 260 pounds down a 16-foot chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
When the chain was snapped around the bull’s neck, the farm hands pulled it over the crossbar of the chute posts and hooked it.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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
Meanwhile, Foreign Legion paratroopers, back in harness after dreary months of bunker building, chuted down into the hills south of Choben.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As shown in Chapter IV concrete can be successfully and economically chuted to place to a greater extent than most contractors realize.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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
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