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
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
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
For readers who did not spend their days walking the factory floor or supervising the sorting of coal chunks sliding down a chute, an incisive picture would stand out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
He reached up, pulled the chain, and next moment had zoomed down a short chute, emerging out of a fireplace into the Ministry of Magic.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
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 Gillette, Halbert Powers
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
