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Recent Examples of flue
If using a fireplace, make sure the chimney flue is open and stay awake while the fire is burning.
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Dr. Mishal Reja, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
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
But Chaplin lets in enough fresh air to make the reader care about things like flue innovations and the proliferation of affordable thermometers.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
To end up with flue gas that’s almost exclusively CO2 and water, their cycle would have to inhale 95 percent pure oxygen.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
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Dr. Mishal Reja, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
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
But Chaplin lets in enough fresh air to make the reader care about things like flue innovations and the proliferation of affordable thermometers.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
To end up with flue gas that’s almost exclusively CO2 and water, their cycle would have to inhale 95 percent pure oxygen.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flue
Noun
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Early reports indicate the explosion came from a chimney within the Mitchel Houses building, according to a statement from officials.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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One of these is the Lost City, a vast hydrothermal field at the bottom of the Atlantic—a kind of unique prehistoric hotbed of massive, dramatic chimney spires venting chemical reactions that scientists have been studying for clues to how life on Earth (and other planets) began.—
Bonnie Tsui,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The element that sets the 95-suite 679-foot ship apart is its signature Funnel Suite, reminiscent of the smokestacks of early-20th-century ocean liners.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
28 Sep. 2025
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In the 1700’s a factory smokestack in England was spewing smoking ashes onto a neighboring property.—
Christopher A. Combs,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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The film, which was found under a carpet and in a duct along with jewelry worn by Schaefer, served as evidence when Ignatow was convicted of perjury for lying to a federal grand jury about his involvement in Schaefer's death.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Oct. 2025
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This matters because most breast cancers begin in glandular and fibrous tissues, specifically the milk ducts or lobules.—
Jennie Durant,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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The National Park Service closes the North Rim in winter, in part because the historic Grand Canyon Lodge was built for summer, with shallow pipes that would freeze in winter.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Check out other gaming options in our best PC games roundup, and swing by our 2025 video game calendar to see what other titles are coming down the pipe later this year.—
Gabriel Zamora,
PC Magazine,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Flue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flue. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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