chute
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“There you go,” he said as he retrieved a prize from the chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The paratrooper, outfitted with a cheap plastic chute, never lived up to his promise, even if deployed from the second floor of a school classroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
General waste for Jackie's flat is sent down a chute into a large container in the bin store at one corner of the block.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Once the chute was exposed, it dragged the MDV all over the place, smashing it against every rock in the area.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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
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
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
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
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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