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chute

[shoot] / ʃut /


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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

When a claw lifts a plushie and drops it inches from the chute, the brain doesn’t register a failure, Ludvig said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

Then with the dying hum of the furiously whirling drums, I heard the grains sifting lazily in the sudden stillness, sliding sand-like down the chute into the pot underneath.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

As shown in Chapter IV concrete can be successfully and economically chuted to place to a greater extent than most contractors realize.

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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