chute
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They’ve been using it as a kind of laundry chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Food waste is not separated or recycled, but instead is put down the same chute.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Whitney, 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 ● Jan. 22, 2026
“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
Instead, Hazel imagined a chute in the darkness, just to their left.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
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
Furthermore, when run-of-crusher stone is chuted from the crusher into a bin or pile the screenings and the coarse stones segregate.
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
