chute
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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
They’ve been using it as a kind of laundry chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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
And that decision has to be made in a heartbeat at the end of a mile-long ice chute covered at speeds exceeding 90 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
And after him Johnny Pacheco was knocked off when Sunflower bucked into the chute gate Nick Rael couldn’t swing open fast enough; Johnny almost broke a leg.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The sand and stone were chuted from the tower bins directly into the charging hopper below.
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
