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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
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These allow the stove’s chimney to pass through the tent without damaging the fabric.Wes Siler, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
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The Outdoors Gaps around windows, your front door, and your chimney provide an opportunity for outdoor pollutants to sneak in.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
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Worn or poorly adjusted and maintained combustion devices (e.g., boilers, furnaces) can be significant sources, or if the flue is improperly sized, blocked, disconnected, or is leaking.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 11 June 2024
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Catch up quick: Capturing the carbon from the flues of plants, like gas, coal and ethanol, and storing it underground (called CCS) has long been technically but not economically feasible, and in development.Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
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Warehouses may not have smokestacks releasing pollutants that the EPA and local agencies typically regulate.Justine Calma, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2024
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In the days when the Harlem River was lined with smokestack industry, its bridges swung open and closed constantly, six or seven times a day, to let ships through.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 July 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 back, a pipe is leaking, damaged when the wall supporting a heater was torn out.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Now, a team of engineers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help reduce the number of fatbergs that form in sewers.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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This may include administering supplemental oxygen through a mask or tubes in the nose to help increase blood oxygen levels.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
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With these investments have also come 3 new trails, with options to night ski and tube.Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2024
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To address the latter issue and avoid glazing - the phenomenon in which the surface of the brake pads burns off - teams tend to install bigger ducts to cool off the brakes.Dan Cancian, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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These are an easy place to overlook, but dust and pet hair can accumulate in vents and ducts and lead to respiratory issues.Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024
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Now, Trump’s election means Orbán will be far less isolated and may even become the political bloc’s conduit to Trump.Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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In Springfield, Ohio, X played a similar role as a conduit for white supremacists and far-right extremists to fuel real-world harm.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Chimney stack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney%20stack. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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