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Recent Examples of chimney stack
Hedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chimney stack
Noun
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As white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney earlier this month, Ham and his fellow Loyola students sprinted to St. Peter’s Square to watch as Pope Leo XIV first stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2025
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Another round of creation—this time from rock-dissolving microbial acids, carried upward by rising spring water—expanded the ancient caves from below and made new ones, with large chimneys climbing toward the surface.—
Michael Ray Taylor,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
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The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
14 May 2025
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If using a fireplace, make sure the chimney flue is open and stay awake while the fire is burning.—
Dr. Mishal Reja,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Smoke leaked out from Thomas’ face-plate instead of his smokestack, and radio control devices that operated the locomotives frequently malfunctioned.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
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For decades, Southern California’s war on smog has focused on strategies to reduce pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Dec. 2024
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Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.—
Kevin Cortez,
Popular Mechanics,
25 May 2023
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Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Apr. 2023
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In January, hundreds of residents were evacuated from the Patrick Sullivan Senior Apartments on the Near West Side due to a burst pipe, which resulted in flooding and the loss of heat and hot water.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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If a thick layer of wet coffee grounds is placed around a plant, a water-resistant barrier is formed (ask a plumber what the grounds do to your plumbing pipes).—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
18 May 2025
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The team is taking this tack because Perseverance is getting low on unsealed tubes and still has a lot of intriguing ground to cover.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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The front end features a new bumper with an integrated splitter, designed at the customer’s request to increase downforce, accelerating airflow to the inner radiator ducts.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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In addition, those homes are connected to a duct system that is inadequate for the HVAC system.—
Brynn Cooksey,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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LLMs and machine learning are merely the conduit through which benefits to the customer are delivered.—
Justin Warren,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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His strained, sandpaper-coarse timbre served as an ideal conduit for songs concerned with boisterous revelries, shady agreements, licentious intentions and musical pleasures.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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“Chimney stack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney%20stack. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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