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
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
They’ve been using it as a kind of laundry chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
But I can’t seem to get the words out of my head and down the chute that connects them to my mouth.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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
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
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
News reports first indicated that a frogman had chuted into the ocean in a quick look for any survivors.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I—I shot the chute—I—I mean I chuted the shot—I mean—" "Say, what do you mean?"
From The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail by Frank Gee Patchin
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
