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Chasing (metalworking)

Chasing is a metalworking technique that uses small hardened steel punches and light hammer blows to create relief and fine detail by displacing rather than removing metal.

Chasing Amy

Chasing Amy (1997) is Kevin Smith's third New Jersey Trilogy film, a $250,000 Miramax rom-com in which Ben Affleck's comic artist falls for lesbian artist Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams); it grossed $12M, won Independent Spirit Awards, and remains debated for its bisexual representation.

Chasing Cameron

Chasing Cameron is a 2016 Netflix reality docu-series following Vine star Cameron Dallas and Magcon members Aaron Carpenter, Taylor Caniff, and others on an international meet-and-greet tour across Europe and Australia; ten episodes, one season.

Chasing Cars

Chasing Cars is a 2006 Snow Patrol single from Eyes Open, written by Gary Lightbody; a UK No. 6 and US No. 5 hit made famous by Grey's Anatomy, later the most-played song on UK radio.

Chasing Liberty

Chasing Liberty is a 2004 romantic comedy about a US President's daughter who escapes her Secret Service detail in Prague. She travels across Europe with a British agent.

Chasing Life

Chasing Life (Terminales adaptation) is an ABC Family/Freeform drama (2014-2015, 34 episodes) starring Italia Ricci as 24-year-old Boston journalist April Carver, diagnosed with leukemia; cancelled October 2015 after ratings fell to 486,000 viewers.

Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks (2012) is a biographical drama, also known by its tagline Legends Start Somewhere, about surfer Jay Moriarity training with mentor Frosty Hesson to ride the Mavericks big-wave break; directed by Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted, it grossed $6.0M and scored 32% with critics.

Chasing Pavements

Chasing Pavements: Adele and Eg White's 2008 soul single, second release from debut album 19 on XL Recordings; UK chart peak number 2, Grammy winner for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2009.

Chasing Summer (film)

Chasing Summer is a 2026 American comedy-drama directed by Josephine Decker, written by and starring Iliza Shlesinger as Jamie, who returns to her Texas hometown; it premiered at Sundance 2026 and holds a 67% Tomatometer.

Chasing the Dragon (追龙) (film)

Chasing the Dragon (追龍) is a 2017 Hong Kong-mainland crime film by Wong Jing and Jason Kwan starring Donnie Yen as drug lord Crippled Ho and Andy Lau as Lee Rock, remaking 1991's To Be Number One and Lee Rock.

Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch

Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (追龍II:賊王) is a 2019 Hong Kong crime thriller by Wong Jing and Jason Kwan, loosely based on kidnapper Cheung Tze-keung, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai and Louis Koo; an in-name-only sequel to the 2017 Chasing the Dragon.

Chasing the Wind (film)

Chasing the Wind (Rüzgara Bırak) is a 2025 Turkish romantic drama directed by Engin Erden, starring Hande Erçel and Barış Arduç as feuding heirs of the Yazman company, released theatrically in January 2025 and on Netflix February 14, 2025.

Chaske Spencer

Chaske Spencer, American Lakota Sioux actor born 1976 in Spokane, Washington; known as Sam Uley in the Twilight Saga films and BAFTA-nominated as Eli Whipp in The English (2022).

Chaso

Chaso, pen name of Chaganti Somayajulu (1915 to 1994), was a Telugu short story writer who published only about 45 stories yet became a master of the genre.

Chaste (Marvel Comics)

The Chaste is a Marvel Comics order of mystic martial artists led by the blind sensei Stick, created by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, first appearing in Daredevil #187 (October 1982). It fights the ninja clan the Hand and trained Daredevil and Elektra; it also appears in the MCU Daredevil and Defenders series.

Chastity belt

Chastity belt: a locking genital-enclosure device famous as a supposed medieval instrument. Historians including Albrecht Classen show no medieval evidence exists; surviving examples are 18th-19th-century fakes and jokes; modern consensual BDSM devices are a separate category.

Chastity High (恋愛バトルロワイヤル)

Chastity High (恋愛バトルロワイヤル, Renai Batoru Rowaiyaru) is a 2024 Japanese Netflix teen drama, Netflix's first original Japanese school series. Eight episodes follow student Ichica Arisawa, a 'Love Keeper' who hides couples' rule violations for cash at a school banning dating.

Chastushka

Chastushka (частушка) is a short Russian folk song, usually four lines, sung at a fast tempo; the genre arose in the second half of the 19th century.

Chasy

Chasy (Часы, "The Clocks") was a Leningrad samizdat literary journal of uncensored literature, published from 1976 to 1990 in 80 issues, a record run for a samizdat journal.

Château Cheval Blanc

Château Cheval Blanc, Saint-Émilion Bordeaux estate on the Pomerol border, famed for a Cabernet Franc-led red on gravel-clay soils; Premier Grand Cru Classé A from 1955 until its 2021 withdrawal, owned by Arnault and Frère since 1998.

Château d'Yquem

Château d'Yquem, Sauternes estate in Bordeaux, France; sole Premier Cru Supérieur of the 1855 classification; LVMH majority owner since 1999; sweet botrytised wine from Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc.

Château Lafite Rothschild

Château Lafite Rothschild is a Pauillac first growth Bordeaux estate, ranked Premier Grand Cru Classé in 1855 and owned by the Rothschild family since Baron James bought it in 1868; its 112-hectare vineyard produces the Grand Vin and second wine Carruades de Lafite.

Château Latour

Château Latour, Pauillac first growth in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, a 96.5-hectare Pinault-owned estate near the Gironde; Cabernet-dominant Grand Vin, Les Forts de Latour, and Pauillac de Latour, released only when ready, not en primeur.

Château Margaux

Château Margaux is a wine estate in the Margaux appellation of the Médoc, France, whose red grand vin has held First Growth status since the 1855 Bordeaux Classification.

Chateau Montelena

Chateau Montelena, a Calistoga winery at the northern end of Napa Valley founded in 1882 by Alfred Tubbs and revived by Jim Barrett in 1972, won the 1976 Judgment of Paris with its 1973 Mike Grgich Chardonnay; known for Estate Cabernet Sauvignon and no-malolactic Chardonnay.

Château Mouton Rothschild

Château Mouton Rothschild is a First Growth wine estate at Pauillac in the Médoc, near Bordeaux, bought by Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild in 1853 as Château Brane-Mouton.

Château Pétrus

Pétrus (Château Pétrus) is a Pomerol, Bordeaux estate of about 11.5 hectares producing 100% Merlot on blue smectite clay; no château building, no classification, Moueix family 80% and Santo Domingo 20% since 2018, among the world's most expensive wines.

Chateaubriand (dish)

Chateaubriand: a thick center-cut beef tenderloin steak or roast, named for French writer François-René de Chateaubriand and credited to his chef Montmireil, served with béarnaise or chateaubriand sauce and château potatoes.

Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC

Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC, first French wine appellation (decree 15 May 1936), a 3,150-hectare southern Rhône appellation across five communes, producing Grenache-based reds (93%) and whites (7%) from 13 permitted grape varieties.

Chatha Pacha

Chatha Pacha: The Ring of Rowdies is a 2026 Indian Malayalam film directed by Adhvaith Nayar, starring Arjun Ashokan and Roshan Mathew as Fort Kochi youngsters who stage WWE-style costume wrestling.