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Recent Examples of chimney
Wide lawns skirted the structure, which had several gables arranged cheerfully around a river-stone chimney.
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Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Have your chimney checked or cleaned every year, as debris can block air flow.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Only a chimney appeared to remain standing.
—Dianne Gallagher, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
His favorite part of any tour is telling people that each pile of stones is a chimney from the huts the soldiers built.
—Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2025
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Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Have your chimney checked or cleaned every year, as debris can block air flow.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Only a chimney appeared to remain standing.
—Dianne Gallagher, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
His favorite part of any tour is telling people that each pile of stones is a chimney from the huts the soldiers built.
—Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chimney
Noun
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But Melissa outwits them all and knocks everyone out by closing the fireplace flue.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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Peoples Gas has been onsite multiple times over the winter and identified the boiler exhaust flue as a potential source of the sporadic smell, district officials said.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The satellites are fitted with custom six-band multispectral infrared cameras, designed to capture imagery suitable for machine learning algorithms to accurately identify wildfires – differentiating them from misleading objects like smokestacks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Mar. 2025
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The problems caused by antitrust today extend far beyond those of the smokestack era.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Bell had opened the pipe steam valve by hand, which kept the lights on two hours after Titanic hit the iceberg, saving hundreds of lives.—
Sean Kingsley,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
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The initial test site is near UC Irvine’s recreation center, with pipes running beneath daycare facilities, and future experiments are planned for UC San Diego’s campus.—
Jesse Kuehn,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Super Flower also includes a plastic backing cover to block the duct holes, for those who would like more of the front fan’s air to be guided upward, toward their graphics card.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
15 Mar. 2025
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The drone continued past wires and around air conditioning ducts to find one suspect standing next to a steel beam presumably trying to avoid detection by the drone.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Chimney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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