chute
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Food waste is not separated or recycled, but instead is put down the same chute.
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
LEXINGTON, Neb.—Wet concrete slid down the cement truck’s chute, marking Ramon Prado’s latest construction project in his adopted hometown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
I step out into the hallway and throw the bag down the chute.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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
This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces.
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
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
A 1-3-6 mixture was used; the sand and stone were chuted directly from the bins to the charging hopper and the cement was charged by hand.
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
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
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
