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Recent Examples of chute
Inspectors found black residue behind the ice chute of an ice machine.
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2025
As the attackers were checking apartment doors trying to find ones unlocked the victim stepped out of her home to throw her garbage down the compactor chute in the hallway and was confronted.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
And Hero’s, the new terrain expansion on Aspen Mountain, will push your edge with chutes and gladed areas.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2024
Lincoln, which has steep chutes, rock bands and tree-skiing, was closed off to the public when the snow broke loose.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2025
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2025
As the attackers were checking apartment doors trying to find ones unlocked the victim stepped out of her home to throw her garbage down the compactor chute in the hallway and was confronted.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
And Hero’s, the new terrain expansion on Aspen Mountain, will push your edge with chutes and gladed areas.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2024
Lincoln, which has steep chutes, rock bands and tree-skiing, was closed off to the public when the snow broke loose.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chute
Noun
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There’s a twilight canoe outing on Bow River for a quintessential Canadian moment, white water rafting that ends with a night in Anishinaabe-style tepees, excursions on float planes, and even a day of wine tasting in the Okanagan valley.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
12 Feb. 2025
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Travelers can go white water rafting in Costa Rica, take a safari in Eswatini and hike up a volcano in Spain.—
MaryLou Costa, contributor,
CNBC,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The pilot is eying a June shoot in Atlanta, sources said.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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The idea is that, if a model is busy with a shoot in New York, their digital likeness can be used instead of a shoot that would have otherwise needed to take place in Los Angeles on the same day.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Mar. 2025
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From there, researchers then fed three types of water through the flume to mimic the ocean’s constant movement.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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Sitting on the top of a ridge, the residence looks down upon Chili Bar, one of California’s most popular whitewater stretches, and the old historic flume in the distance.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Chute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chute. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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