chute
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The paratrooper, outfitted with a cheap plastic chute, never lived up to his promise, even if deployed from the second floor of a school classroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
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
There was a chute so that hay might be pitched down to the cattle.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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
News reports first indicated that a frogman had chuted into the ocean in a quick look for any survivors.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the other case the sand and the stone were chuted directly into the charging hopper from overhead bins and the mixer discharged into one-batch buckets on cars.
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
