flume
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Gilligan, a judge on popular ITV series The Masked Singer, recalled spending days on the beach and riding the log flume at the fun park as well playing the penny arcade machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
This was a commencement, not a log flume.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
“One of the things that we thought about was that this particular flume configuration has always been a rite-of-passage type attraction for young kids,” Carter says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024
Following the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Nunis wanted a log flume attraction that would serve as the next big water ride at Disneyland.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
The park extended into flume rides, wave pools, and a lazy river.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Like the Unitarians, they poked for gulls' eggs in the Island's scarred, flumed granite listened to lectures, held seminars and attended services in the little Gosport Meeting House.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Along a narrowing arm of the mountain, a deep canyon flumed a rushing torrent of icy water from a small glacier on our right.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young
Unfortunately most of the Fresno grove has been cut and flumed down to the railroad near Madera.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
The water supply was brought from the mountains several miles distant, flumed where necessary, and then conveyed underground in cement pipes made and laid by the Indians under the direction of the padres.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James
There they were in use for many years mainly for hauling logs and lumber to and from the mills on the summit, whence it was "flumed" to Carson City.
Leingang, who had been at Dixson’s lab since 2016, says he had become increasingly suspicious of her findings, in part because she usually collected her fluming data alone.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
One former colleague became “slowly more suspicious,” especially about the fluming studies, and began to monitor them covertly.
From Science Magazine ● May 6, 2021
The simplest way to arrange this will be by wooden surface troughs as used in the fluming scheme.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
Now trestle and fluming lay in bent, rent, and riven ruin at the bottom of the coulée.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
I will not, therefore, repeat it here, but will merely mention that the numerous fluming companies have already commenced their extensive operations upon the river.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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