chute
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Food waste is not separated or recycled, but instead is put down the same chute.
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
LEXINGTON, Neb.—Wet concrete slid down the cement truck’s chute, marking Ramon Prado’s latest construction project in his adopted hometown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
“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
Soon after the main chute deployed, we noticed a strange thing.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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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
News reports first indicated that a frogman had chuted into the ocean in a quick look for any survivors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Years ago all these slopes were denuded of their valuable timber, which was "chuted" down to the Lake and then towed across to the sawmills at Glenbrook.
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