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Recent Examples of chimney
As ballots were burned, black smoke billowed out of the Vatican chimney around 9 pm local time on Wednesday indicating the cardinals had not reached the majority requirement.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 May 2025
Black smoke = no new pope In Rome’s night sky, black smoke seeped through the Sistine Chapel chimney.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 8 May 2025
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
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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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 May 2025
Black smoke = no new pope In Rome’s night sky, black smoke seeped through the Sistine Chapel chimney.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 8 May 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chimney
Noun
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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
Noun
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Many people have their phones pointed at the smokestack, already recording, eager to capture a moment in history.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
7 May 2025
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Traditional Tibetan motifs of clouds and waves are here peppered with industrial spills and smokestacks.—
Holland Cotter,
New York Times,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The building is old and has lead pipes, so a service brings in large plastic bottles for a water cooler.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
31 May 2025
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The suspect was swinging the pipe and smashed a station call box, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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In 2022, archaeologists rediscovered a narrow duct leading to a small ritual chamber 8 meters deep beneath one of the site’s temple buildings.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
5 May 2025
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In 90% of fetuses, these ducts fuse to form one central pancreatic duct.—
Jonathan B. Jassey,
Verywell Health,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Chimney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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