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chute

[shoot] / ʃut /


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“There you go,” he said as he retrieved a prize from the chute.

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

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

Food waste is not separated or recycled, but instead is put down the same chute.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

It tumbles and bangs down the sides of the chute, as if my words are shouting their truth one last time.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

The parts, the new power plant and a few other odds and ends were chuted into a neat pile on the ship.

From The Repairman by Harry Harrison

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

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

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




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