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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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The drones have crashed into the chimney of a power plant in Estonia, hit empty fuel tanks in Latvia and been shot down by Romanian fighter jets stationed in Lithuania.
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Ukrainian drones have hit the chimney of a power plant in Estonia and empty fuel tanks in Latvia, and also were shot down by Romanian fighter jets stationed in Lithuania.
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Ray is also an alcoholic, hiding bottles in a toilet tank, an attic, a fireplace flue, even filling a soda bottle with booze for his workout.
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Chinese media described the process as a closed system in which flue gas enters one end of the pipeline and fertiliser emerges from the other.
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Thick, black smoke and occasional flames spewed from the Moscow Oil Refinery amid its red-and-white smokestacks on the southeastern edge of the city, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the Kremlin.
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These modular reactors can eventually be connected directly to active factory smokestacks and local agricultural biorefineries.
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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.
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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.
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This could be rescheduling a doctor's appointment, finding a contractor after a pipe bursts, or picking up your dry cleaning before a flight in the morning.
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With enough money, miles of pipe and drape, and a can-do attitude, anything can be a romantic wedding venue, even Madison Square Garden.
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Drivers wear vests which pump cooling liquid through a network of tubes, linked to pumping equipment inside the car.
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The characters have little time to make life-or-death decisions, let alone ruminate, and the action vacillates between triage and doctors expertly improvising solutions — like Mel (Taylor Dearden) donating her own blood, and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) going MacGyver mode with a tracheal tube.
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This will involve assessing your system’s indoor and outdoor components, including ducts and dirty filters—which should be replaced every one to three months.
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Invasive ductal carcinoma begins in the ducts and grows outward into surrounding breast tissue, the CDC said.
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But the outlets require frequent inspections and maintenance when used continuously, which means that one of the four conduits will routinely be offline.
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But the journalist should not become a conduit for disinformation.
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“Chimney stack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chimney%20stack. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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