gutter
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Carbon says the drone had drifted slightly having lost the GPS signal and clipped the building's gutter on the way out.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” wrote Oscar Wilde.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
“Some are free to choose between penthouse suites, while others are free to choose in which gutter to lay their heads.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Next thing I knew I was in the gutter.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing gutter
"Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen
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