chute
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Here’s where economics will take a far-reaching hand, as public investors should note, given the spate of initial public offerings coming down the chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Subterranean bins have been built into the brick pavement on street corners, where residents can drop their bags into a chute above ground.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
“Someone might have stolen my spot because they ran down a 3,000-meter ski chute where gravity is helping you,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2025
On its first day in operation, as ocean waves crashed behind him, an EPA contractor used a Bobcat with a front claw to pick up a metal drum and hold it over the machine’s chute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Getting that all up off the bedroom floor and down the chute.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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
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
"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 Patchin, Frank Gee
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 Gillette, Halbert Powers
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 Gillette, Halbert Powers
